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Wilma_Hum
12-08-2008, 01:19 PM
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=683871
The suspected planner of last month's attack by gunmen on Mumbai was arrested by Pakistani security forces in a raid on a militant camp, an official with a charity linked to the militant group says.

The Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) official, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject, said Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi was among four men taken into custody following Sunday's raid on a camp used by Lashkar-e-Taiba fighters outside Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani Kashmir.

Pakistani intelligence officers said six men have been arrested, but gave no names, and there has been no official confirmation of the raid.

Lakhvi, one of Lashkar's operations chiefs, was named as a ringleader in the Mumbai plot by the lone surviving gunmen captured in India, according to Indian officials.

Jamaat-ud-Dawa is run by Hafiz Saeed, who founded Lashkar-e-Taiba in 1989. He abandoned the group when it was banned after India alleged it was behind an attack on parliament in New Delhi.

Senior government officials refused to confirm or deny the arrests, which came as US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday urged Pakistan to act quickly.

Rice said there was evidence the country's soil had been used by "non-state actors" to mount the attacks.

"I do think that Pakistan has a responsibility to act," she said in a television interview.

Pakistan daily Dawn quoted local residents as saying troops had taken control of a plot of land on the outskirts of Muzaffarabad occupied by Jamaat-ud-Dawa.

The site was used by Lashkar-e-Taiba before the Pakistan government banned the group in 2002, the paper said.

The 60-hour siege in Mumbai 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.

India says all 10 gunmen involved in the assault came from Pakistan, and has handed Islamabad a list of 20 terror suspects, with demands for their arrest and extradition.

Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani was scheduled Monday to chair a meeting of the cabinet defence committee to discuss the situation, the government said.

On Sunday, Pakistan denied 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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