Pakistani security forces raided a camp run by Lashkar-e-Taiba on Sunday, according to a senior Pakistani official. The Pakistani official said the action against the camp was taken because of evidence that the militants based in the facility were linked to the attacks on Mumbai. He said information about the Lashkar-e-Taiba facility was provided to President Asif Ali Zardari's government by both India and the U.S. "We are taking action based on the intelligence given to us," the official said. "It's Pakistan's decision based on our own national interest." The official said he expects his government to conduct more actions against Lashkar-e-Taiba in the days and weeks ahead.
The Pakistani official said the action against the camp was taken because of evidence that the militants based in the facility were linked to the attacks on Mumbai. He said information about the Lashkar-e-Taiba facility was provided to President Asif Ali Zardari's government by both India and the U.S.
"We are taking action based on the intelligence given to us," the official said. "It's Pakistan's decision based on our own national interest." The official said he expects his government to conduct more actions against Lashkar-e-Taiba in the days and weeks ahead.
MUZAFFARABAD/ISLAMABAD: Security forces have launched a `quiet' crackdown on activists belonging to the banned jihadi outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba in different parts of the country and Azad Jammu and Kashmir. In Muzaffarabad, a major army operation was under way in the city suburbs on Sunday against a site being used by the Jamaatud Dawa, which is headed by Hafiz Mohammad Saeed. Sources said that more than 20 members of the banned organisation and Lashkar-e-Taiba's `commander' Zakiur Rehman Lakhwi had been arrested. <...> Police and civil administration officials in Muzaffarabad told reporters they did not know what was happening. Local residents, however, said they had seen army personnel taking control of the area along Shawai Nullah, some five kilometres northwest of Muzaffarabad, where the organisation possesses a large plot of land on which several buildings had been built. The Lashkar-i-Taiba (LeT) of Hafiz Saeed occupied the same place before the organisation was proscribed. <...> AFP quoted an intelligence official as saying that three Jamaat-ud-Dawa members had been arrested on Monday. `Three people were rounded up in a brief operation against the Islamic charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa,' the official said. ...
In Muzaffarabad, a major army operation was under way in the city suburbs on Sunday against a site being used by the Jamaatud Dawa, which is headed by Hafiz Mohammad Saeed. Sources said that more than 20 members of the banned organisation and Lashkar-e-Taiba's `commander' Zakiur Rehman Lakhwi had been arrested. <...>
Police and civil administration officials in Muzaffarabad told reporters they did not know what was happening.
Local residents, however, said they had seen army personnel taking control of the area along Shawai Nullah, some five kilometres northwest of Muzaffarabad, where the organisation possesses a large plot of land on which several buildings had been built. The Lashkar-i-Taiba (LeT) of Hafiz Saeed occupied the same place before the organisation was proscribed. <...>
AFP quoted an intelligence official as saying that three Jamaat-ud-Dawa members had been arrested on Monday.
`Three people were rounded up in a brief operation against the Islamic charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa,' the official said. ...
