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Pakistan says it arrests 3 alleged Indian agents
By BABAR DOGAR 6 hours ago
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) Pakistani police arrested three men Thursday who they alleged carried out a deadly 2006 bombing in Pakistan on the orders of India's intelligence agency, a top officer said.
Lahore police chief Pervaiz Rathor told reporters the trio all Pakistanis had also been told to attack mosques as well as the virulently anti-Indian group blamed for the terror attacks in Mumbai last November.
The allegations come amid souring relations between the nuclear-armed neighbors in the wake of the Mumbai terrorist attacks, which killed 164 people in November.
India says the Mumbai gunmen were Pakistanis belonging to banned terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba and has repeatedly insinuated that Pakistani intelligence was involved.
Islamabad accepts that the sole attacker captured alive is Pakistani, but it denies any state links with the militants.
Rathor said the three men were arrested Thursday in a village close to the Indian border in eastern Pakistan.
"They were trained by the Indian intelligence agency," he said. "They have told interrogators that they had been given tasks to target mosques, offices and one of the main centers of Lashkar-e-Taiba," Rathor said.
He also alleged they were involved in a bus stop bombing outside a college in the eastern city of Lahore in 2006 that killed two people and wounded several others.
In New Delhi, a senior government official said India's foreign ministry would not comment on a media report. The official asked not to be identified because he wasn't authorized to speak to the media.
India and Pakistan have fought three wars since gaining independence from Britain in 1947. Ties between the South Asian neighbors have never been good, and both sides frequently accuse each other of illegal activities on each other's soil.
On Sunday, Indian police said they had shot and killed two armed Pakistani militants close to the capital, New Delhi.
The Associated Press: Pakistan says it arrests 3 alleged Indian agents
By BABAR DOGAR 6 hours ago
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) Pakistani police arrested three men Thursday who they alleged carried out a deadly 2006 bombing in Pakistan on the orders of India's intelligence agency, a top officer said.
Lahore police chief Pervaiz Rathor told reporters the trio all Pakistanis had also been told to attack mosques as well as the virulently anti-Indian group blamed for the terror attacks in Mumbai last November.
The allegations come amid souring relations between the nuclear-armed neighbors in the wake of the Mumbai terrorist attacks, which killed 164 people in November.
India says the Mumbai gunmen were Pakistanis belonging to banned terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba and has repeatedly insinuated that Pakistani intelligence was involved.
Islamabad accepts that the sole attacker captured alive is Pakistani, but it denies any state links with the militants.
Rathor said the three men were arrested Thursday in a village close to the Indian border in eastern Pakistan.
"They were trained by the Indian intelligence agency," he said. "They have told interrogators that they had been given tasks to target mosques, offices and one of the main centers of Lashkar-e-Taiba," Rathor said.
He also alleged they were involved in a bus stop bombing outside a college in the eastern city of Lahore in 2006 that killed two people and wounded several others.
In New Delhi, a senior government official said India's foreign ministry would not comment on a media report. The official asked not to be identified because he wasn't authorized to speak to the media.
India and Pakistan have fought three wars since gaining independence from Britain in 1947. Ties between the South Asian neighbors have never been good, and both sides frequently accuse each other of illegal activities on each other's soil.
On Sunday, Indian police said they had shot and killed two armed Pakistani militants close to the capital, New Delhi.
The Associated Press: Pakistan says it arrests 3 alleged Indian agents
