MULTAN: 46 students and teachers from an Islamic school have been detained in connection with a failed suicide bombing attack in Cheechawatni. Police on Sunday said that three would-be suicide bombers on bicycles were killed on Saturday after a speed bump set off the explosives they were carrying to a prayer gathering. “Police have arrested 40 students and six teachers of Aziz-ul-Aloom, a seminary in Cheechawatni,” a police official said. “Maulana Alam Tariq, the late Maulana Azam Tariq’s brother, is among the arrested,” he said.Mirza Ali, another cop, said three investigation teams had been constituted to probe the case. “The suspects were members of the Sunni extremist group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi,” police sources said, adding that President Pervez Musharraf had banned the group in 2001. Lashkar-e-Jhangvi is accused of killing hundreds of Shias after its emergence in the early 1990s.
LJ is "banned," but somehow seems to continue operations without interruption or decrease in its funding. There was never any real roundup of its adherents, no shutdown of any property associated with it, no closing of LJ-affiliated madrassahs, no arrests of LJ holy men. Perv's "bans" are pretty flimsy things.