Pakistan raids camp of group blamed for Mumbai

[Willow_on_fire]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081208/india_nm/india368998 They must've bombed the empty place...Paki Army has many Lashkar sympathisers who would've warned them ahead...and also pakis want to prove to the world that 'action is being taken'.

[Desi Cartman]

there is breaking news on NDTV that Pak army took control of a madarsssa in POK and arrested one of LeT leader wanted by India

[Cricketics]

o really, they captured leader of LET.. then send him to India, and with him send that moron Zaid Hamid too. we will put that zaid hamid in Tihar Jail

[Willow_on_fire]

there is breaking news on NDTV that Pak army took control of a madarsssa in POK and arrested one of LeT leader wanted by India

that is good news...hey desi bro ...your new avatar is cool!!!:cantstop:

[punjabi_khota]

http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/dec/08mumterror-mumbai-terror-mastermind-held-in-pok.htm Mumbai terror mastermind held in PoK Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorist Zakiur Rehman Lakhwi, accused of masterminding the Mumbai attacks, is among over 20 members of the group arrested by Pakistani security forces during a crackdown in Pakistan occupied Kashmir. The security forces, including the army, on Sunday launched a crackdown on the Lashkar and its front organisation, the Jamaat-ud-Dawah, in PoK and other parts of Pakistan. Helicopters were used in the operation in Muzaffarabad, the capital of PoK. Ajmal Amir Iman Qasab, the lone terrorist captured in Mumbai after the attacks, had named Lakhwi as one of the Lashkar men who had planned the strike. Lakhwi was among more than the 20 Lashkar members arrested in Muzaffarabad during a major army operation on a camp used by the outlawed group, the Dawn newspaper, quoted sources, as saying. There was no immediate official word on the crackdown. The Dawn said there were reports that similar actions were planned in some cities and towns of Punjab, a province where the Lashkar and the Jamaat have a significant presence. Qasab, the terrorist captured in Mumbai, hails from a village in Okara district in Pakistan's Punjab province. Pakistan is under intense international pressure, including from the US, to take action against the Lashkar for its involvement in the Mumbai attacks. The Lashkar was founded by Hafiz Mohammad Saeed who formed the Jamaat soon after the Lashkar was banned in Pakistan in 2001. Local residents said they had seen army personnel taking control of an area along Shawai Nullah, five kilometres northwest of Muzaffarabad, where the Lashkar possesses a large camp with several buildings. The troops sealed off the area after they launched their operation. "I saw an army helicopter hovering over the area and around 5 pm I heard two or three loud explosions," a woman who lives in the area told Dawn. Another person said the helicopter might have been used to airlift people detained or injured during the operation. There were also unconfirmed reports of an exchange of fire. Ambulances from hospitals in Muzaffarabad were called to the area by troops, but witnesses said they returned without anyone inside. In Chehla Bandi area in PoK, soldiers checked vehicles bound for the Neelum valley.

[Willow_on_fire]

http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/dec/08mumterror-mumbai-terror-mastermind-held-in-pok.htm Mumbai terror mastermind held in PoK Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorist Zakiur Rehman Lakhwi, accused of masterminding the Mumbai attacks, is among over 20 members of the group arrested by Pakistani security forces during a crackdown in Pakistan occupied Kashmir. The security forces, including the army, on Sunday launched a crackdown on the Lashkar and its front organisation, the Jamaat-ud-Dawah, in PoK and other parts of Pakistan. Helicopters were used in the operation in Muzaffarabad, the capital of PoK. Ajmal Amir Iman Qasab, the lone terrorist captured in Mumbai after the attacks, had named Lakhwi as one of the Lashkar men who had planned the strike. Lakhwi was among more than the 20 Lashkar members arrested in Muzaffarabad during a major army operation on a camp used by the outlawed group, the Dawn newspaper, quoted sources, as saying. There was no immediate official word on the crackdown. The Dawn said there were reports that similar actions were planned in some cities and towns of Punjab, a province where the Lashkar and the Jamaat have a significant presence. Qasab, the terrorist captured in Mumbai, hails from a village in Okara district in Pakistan's Punjab province. Pakistan is under intense international pressure, including from the US, to take action against the Lashkar for its involvement in the Mumbai attacks. The Lashkar was founded by Hafiz Mohammad Saeed who formed the Jamaat soon after the Lashkar was banned in Pakistan in 2001. Local residents said they had seen army personnel taking control of an area along Shawai Nullah, five kilometres northwest of Muzaffarabad, where the Lashkar possesses a large camp with several buildings. The troops sealed off the area after they launched their operation. "I saw an army helicopter hovering over the area and around 5 pm I heard two or three loud explosions," a woman who lives in the area told Dawn. Another person said the helicopter might have been used to airlift people detained or injured during the operation. There were also unconfirmed reports of an exchange of fire. Ambulances from hospitals in Muzaffarabad were called to the area by troops, but witnesses said they returned without anyone inside. In Chehla Bandi area in PoK, soldiers checked vehicles bound for the Neelum valley.

International pressure...resulting in 'action'...:--D

[h4te]

there is no concrete evidence that the captured man is indeed a high-level LeT operative. He could just as well be some random scapegoat!

[Guest dada_rocks]

Hamid Mir saying we are doing it as routine round-up ntot on India's insistance.. pranoyr Roy asked then why now all of a sudden.. these guys think whole world is fool

[DomainK]

there is breaking news on NDTV that Pak army took control of a madarsssa in POK and arrested one of LeT leader wanted by India

Yes. Right now they are torturing the poor farmer into admitting that he heads LeT.

[King Tendulkar]

Who ever they arrest they will quitely release in 6 months. Any camps supposedly destroyed will be quitely relocated. We must stop focusing on pak. They are not going to change and there is nothing we can do. It should not matter if they poroduce 10000 suicide jihadis. We should just make sure they cant get in to the country and hurt us. Secure the borders and any one stepping in to india land wether by sea, land and air is stopped. Then of course then focus on eradicating our home grown jihadis

[vadodaravictor]

I would take everything that Pak does with grain of salt unless they handover criminals from our wanted list.

[Fontaine]

This just shows what a bunch of scumbags and filth the government of Pakistan is. I would even extend that the Pakistan military and police/security services. Yes, scumbags. You mean to tell me that within a few days they could raid this camp and arrest this LeT mastermind who's been behind the plotting of numerous attacks over the years? Why wasn't this done YEARS AGO? You know, BEFORE these terror attacks. These might be "non state actors" as has been quoted numerous times but the fact is the Pak government waited until hundreds of people were killed and injured in India and had the US putting pressure on them before they acted. These people are nothing but cockroaches under our feet. I'm fuming right now and beyond anger. It took the two nations almost going to war and a superpower like the US directly intervening for Pakistan to finally take some action and within hours we had this arrest. How many men, women, and children around the world (as he's suspected for terrorist acts all over) would be alive, getting on with their lives if the Pak government and forces had done this, say a year ago? These people have no humanity in them.

[Sachinism]

Pakistan raids camp over Mumbai attacks ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistani troops have raided a camp used by the group India blames for last month's massacre in Mumbai. The raid took place Sunday near Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, the sources said. A Pakistani military official said 15 people were arrested in the raid but he would not identify any of the suspects until the preliminary investigation has concluded. It is the first sign of government action against Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, the Islamic militant group India says was behind the killings of more than 160 people in Mumbai, since last month's attacks. iReport.com: Share your reaction to the attacks Indian authorities say the sole surviving gunman in the attacks has told investigators that he was trained by LeT, which was banned following a 2001 attack on the Indian parliament that brought the nuclear-armed rivals to the brink of war. Initial reports indicated Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, a suspected mastermind of the Mumbai attacks, was arrested although it was later denied by CNN sources. The camp raided was owned by Jamaat-ud-Dawa, a charity formed after the ban. The group says it uses the site as an office for relief work in an area hit by a major earthquake in 2005 but it did not immediately respond to requests for comment Monday. LeT was formed to fight Indian rule in the divided Himalayan territory of Kashmir, the flashpoint for two of the three wars India and Pakistan have fought since independence. It has denied any responsibility for Mumbai attacks, and Pakistani authorities deny the attackers were from their country and blamed "non-state actors" for the killings. India revised the death toll from the attacks downward Monday to 164, including 120 Indian civilians, 26 non-Indians and 18 troops and police officers who died in three days of battles with the attackers. Nine of the gunmen involved in the attacks were killed as well, according to Mumbai police. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pressured Pakistan to take action against militant groups within its territory during a visit to India and Pakistan last week. She told CNN's "Late Edition" on Sunday that while there are "historic ties" between the Pakistani government and LeT, "Pakistan is a different place now," with a civilian government working to crack down on militants within its territory. "We have to remember that Pakistan itself has been suffering at the hands of extremism. So whatever the history here, and there is a history, the important thing is that Pakistan act against those who used Pakistani soil to perpetrate attacks." http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/12/08/pakistan.india.mumbai.arrests/index.html

[Sachinism]

my bad, there was an update

[dial_100]

So are we fool to believe that this guy will be sitting duck hoping to be arrested in LeT camp ???? Many Pakis intelligence really entertain us lot apart from killing.

[fineleg]

So are we fool to believe that this guy will be sitting duck hoping to be arrested in LeT camp ???? Many Pakis intelligence really entertain us lot apart from killing.

I agree. This is eyewash by Pak. I wont believe they will truly do even a small bit to help India.

[coffee_rules]

Doing the raid in PoK, they are distracting the "world" (read USA) of the importance of home-grown terrorists in their mainland around Karachi to PoK and might say that the struggle is because of Kashmir and internal to India.