KABUL (AFP) - Afghanistan's intelligence agency claimed Wednesday that last month's attacks on government buildings in Kabul were planned and directed from Pakistan, saying seven Afghans have been arrested. The attackers were in telephone contact with a Pakistan-based ringleader during the simultaneous attacks on the Justice Ministry, Prisons Directorate and Education Ministry, agency spokesman Saeed Ansary told reporters. The Feb 11 attacks, claimed by Taliban, killed 26 Afghans in one of the most brazen assaults on the capital since the hardline movement was overthrown in the 2001 US-led invasion. Eight of the attackers were killed, three by their suicide bombs. "Seven terrorists were arrested and one was killed during the arrest operation," Ansary said, without giving any further details about the raid. The alleged ringleader, whom Ansary identified only as Harris, is based in Waziristan tribal area on the Afghan border and is still at large there, the official said. Some of the suspects told authorities they had received military training in Waziristan, he said. "I met Harris in Waziristan and received training in using weapons," one alleged suspect said in a video recording handed to media, whose authenticity was not immediately possible to confirm. Ansari said the five men who stormed the Justice Ministry were equipped with loudspeakers, food and weapons, and were planning to take employees, including the minister, as hostages. They also had the telephone numbers of several Kabul-based media, he said. "They wanted to take hostages for days and demand the release of Taliban prisoners in exchange, and make media propaganda out of it," he said.