Police in Pakistan have arrested a Shia Muslim leader in connection with the assassination of a rival Sunni lawmaker last month, amid a crackdown on several Islamic groups. Interior Ministry officials say they arrested Allama Sajid Naqvi in connection with the murder of a Maulana Azam Tariq, a leader of an extremist group from Pakistan’s Sunni majority. They did not say how he might have been involved. Mr Nakvi leads the Shia militant group Tehreek-i-Islami Pakistan, which is one of several organisations banned by President Musharraf on Saturday. Most of the groups, Sunni and Shia, had already been banned in security sweeps ordered by the president in the past two years, but they had simply renamed themselves and continued operations as before.
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