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Pakistan nabs Mumbai plot suspect
Mon Dec 8, 2008 12:51pm EST
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani security forces have arrested a suspected planner of last month's militant attack on India's financial capital in Mumbai in a raid on a militant camp in Pakistani Kashmir, sources said on Monday.
The Pakistani government has not revealed any details of Sunday's raid at the camp used by Lashkar-e-Taiba fighters in the hills outside the regional capital Muzaffarabad. But the military confirmed a crackdown had started on banned jihadi groups like Lashkar.
India and the United States have pressed Pakistan to act against militants suspected of being behind the Mumbai attack in which at least 171 people were killed.
There were fears that tensions between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan could rise unless Pakistan cooperated and a four-year-old peace process is already in jeopardy.
Intelligence officials, workers with a charity linked to Lashkar and people living nearby say Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, a Lashkar operations chief named by India as a suspect, was taken into custody.
"Yes, Lakhvi is among four or five people arrested in a raid yesterday," said an official from the Jamaat-ud-Dawa charity, widely regarded as a front for the militant group.
A former militant who now has close ties to the JuD also said Lakhvi had been arrested, as did one intelligence official.
All of them spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of talking about security matters.
Other Pakistani intelligence officers said at least six men were arrested. The military confirmed arrests had been made.
"This is an intelligence-led operation against banned militant outfits and organizations," the military said in a statement. "There have been arrests and investigations are on."
A Lashkar spokesman confirmed the jihadi group was targeted.
"Pakistani forces have attacked our camps in Muzaraffabad under pressure from the U.S. and India," Abdullah Ghaznavi, a spokesman for Lashkar, told Reuters by telephone.
He denied the group was involved in the Mumbai attack.
The surviving gunman captured in Mumbai named Lakhvi and another Lashkar commander, Yusuf Muzammil, as ringleaders in the plot, according to Indian officials.
Indian police said they had identified the nine dead gunmen, and the places they came from in Pakistan. Continued...
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