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Police say they foiled attack in Indian Kashmir
By ZORAWAR SINGH JAMWAL,Associated Press Writer AP - 1 hour 27 minutes ago
JAMMU, India - India has arrested three suspected Islamic militants _ including a Pakistani soldier _ for allegedly planning a suicide attack in Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said Tuesday.
The arrests come amid rising tensions and increasing pressure from India on Pakistan to crack down on militant groups operating from its territory in the wake of the Mumbai attacks.
The suspects are members of Jaish-e-Mohammed, one of more than a dozen groups that have been fighting since 1989 to oust India from Kashmir, Kuldeep Khoda, director-general of police in Indian Kashmir, told reporters.
The Himalayan region _ the source of much of the tension between India and Pakistan _ is divided between the two nations and claimed in its entirety by both.
Khoda said police do not yet know the intended target of the attack, but he said the three men "had received specialized training in suicide attacks and driving explosive-laden vehicles."
One of the men, identified as Ghulam Farid, is a Pakistani soldier serving in the Azad Kashmir, or Free Kashmir, regiment, said Khoda, who provided his army service number.
There was no immediate response from the Pakistani army.
The men were detained Sunday after checking into a hotel in Jammu, a predominantly Hindu city in Jammu-Kashmir, India's only Muslim majority state. They were waiting to receive arms and explosives when they were arrested, Khoda said.
He said the men apparently had illegally entered India from Bangladesh and were detained after police received a tip-off about their location.
If Farid is proven to be an active Pakistani soldier, it would be a blow for Pakistan, which denies funding and training the Kashmiri militant groups and says it only provides them with moral support.
Another Pakistan-based Kashmiri group, Lashkar-e-Taiba, has been blamed for the Mumbai attacks in which 164 people and nine of the 10 accused gunmen were killed.
On Monday, India gave Pakistan a letter reportedly written by Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the only gunman captured after the Mumbai rampage. Kasab wrote that all the gunmen involved in the Nov. 26 attack came from Pakistan, India's Foreign Ministry said. He also requested a meeting with Pakistani envoys, the ministry said.
In Islamabad, the head of Pakistan's Interior Ministry, Rehman Malik, said Tuesday that Pakistan had no record of Kasab.
Malik, speaking a press conference with Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble, said the letter was being examined by experts but reiterated that Pakistan cannot fully investigate potential links back to the country without more evidence from India.
The head of Interpol said Pakistan has agreed to work with his organization to help investigate the Mumbai attacks.
But Noble said India has not provided any information "that would allow Interpol to identify the identities of the individuals involved or that would allow Interpol member countries to determine if any links exist between them (and) any person, any group and any other country."
At the same time, he defended India's right to decide when to share additional evidence.
"I really respect a sovereign's decision to decide when to share information with police worldwide," said Noble.
India has said it has provided enough evidence for the Pakistani government to crack down on Lashkar-e-Taiba, the group blamed in the attack.
Pakistan has arrested several senior members of the banned group and has also moved against Jammat-ud-Dawa, a charity that India and others say is a front for Lashkar. But India has criticized the moves as insufficient and has demanded greater action.
Since gaining independence from Britain in 1947, India and Pakistan have fought two of their three wars over Kashmir. A peace process begun in 2004 has eased relations between the nuclear-armed rivals, but these ties have been strained by the Mumbai attacks.
Also Tuesday, police issued restrictions on movement in much of Indian Kashmir ahead of the last round of voting in state elections.
Separatists have called on residents to resist voting, saying the election will only strengthen India's hold on the Himalayan region.
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