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UPDATED ON:
Monday, December 08, 2008
14:45 Mecca time, 11:45 GMT
News CENTRAL/S. ASIA
Pakistan 'arrests Mumbai suspects'
India has blamed Lashkar for the co-ordinated
attacks on Mumbai [EPA]
A number of people have been arrested after Pakistani forces raided a camp said
to be used by the group India blames for the co-ordinated attacks on Mumbai,
according to intelligence officials.
Witnesses said the raid was carried out on Sunday, close to the town of
Muzaffarabad in the Pakistani-controlled territory of the disputed Kashmir
region.
It would be the first in response to the Mumbai attacks, which Indian officials
say were carried out by Lashkar-e-Taiba, an outlawed Pakistani group.
Some reports said that there had been a brief exchange of fire as the raid
began.
There was no immediate official confirmation of the incident.
The Associated Press news agency reported unnamed fighters from the group as
saying the camp was abandoned by Lashkar-e-Taiba in 2004 and had since been
used by Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the group's parent organisation, for education and
charity work.
"Clearly the Pakistan government is responding to the international demand that
any group that is using either Pakistan soil or areas under its control and is
involved in activities beyond the pail of international law needs to be dealt
with sternly," Talat Hussain, the director of news at the local AAJ television
network, told Al Jazeera.
'Tight-lipped'
"There are reports that security forces including military personnel went into
the area," Al Jazeera's Kamal Hyder reported from Islamabad.
"But the government is tight-lipped about it ... and so far there is nothing
significant," he said.
"There is speculation that these are preliminary investigations into what the
activities of Jamaat-ud-Dawa in that particular region are all about."
News of the arrests emerged hours after Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of
state, 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
television interview.
Islamabad has denied any of its state agencies were involved in the Mumbai
attacks, which left more than 170 people dead, but has said it is prepared to
co-operate with India if authorities prove the attackers came from Pakistan.
Lashkar-e-Taiba has also denied any role in the deadly rampage, but the only
surviving suspected attacker named one of the group's leaders as being behind
the Mumbai plot, according to Indian officials.
Earlier on Sunday, the Pakistan government declined to comment on a report that
it had agreed to a 48-hour deadline set by the US and India to hand over
Pakistanis suspected of involvement in the attacks and form a plan of action
against Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Source: Al Jazeera and agencies
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