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Pakistan arrests three in Mumbai attacks probe: official
AFP - Monday, December 8
ISLAMABAD (AFP) - - Pakistani security forces have arrested three people from an Islamic charity closely linked to the group India accuses of involvement in the Mumbai attacks, an intelligence official said Monday.
"Three people were rounded up in a brief operation against the Islamic charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa," the official said.
"The raid was carried out to get details about the activities of the group in Kashmir in the wake of allegations by India that LeT (Lashkar-e-Taiba) was using Pakistani territory for training."
The arrests took place Sunday at the charity's offices outside the capital of Pakistani-administered Kashmir, Muzaffarabad, where the banned Islamic group Lashkar-e-Taiba is active.
Senior government officials refused to confirm or deny the arrests, which came as international pressure mounted on Pakistan to act against the group seen as the number one suspect in last month's devastating Mumbai attacks.
The 60-hour Mumbai siege by Islamic militants left 172 people dead and has badly affected relations between the nuclear-armed South Asian neighbours, who have fought three wars since independence from Britain.
News of the arrests emerged hours after US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday urged Pakistan to act quickly and said there was evidence the country was used by "non-state actors" to mount the attacks.
"I do think that Pakistan has a responsibility to act," Rice said in a televisions interview.
Earlier Sunday, the Pakistan government declined to comment on a report that it had agreed to a 48-hour deadline set by the United States and India to hand over Pakistanis suspected of involvement in the attacks and form a plan of action against Lashkar-e-Taiba.
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