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| Top cleric among four nabbed by Pak for 7/7 |
| 2005-07-16 |
| Pakistan has reportedly detained four suspects related to the London blasts case, including a top cleric, following a list of suspects handed to it by Britain. The Times of London said that following Pakistan President General Musharraf's countrywide crackdown on jihadis, authorities in Pakistan arrested the head of an Islamic religious school, believed to have been the madrassa, where suicide bomber Shehzad Tanweer first made contact with Al Qaeda militants. Pakistani intelligence officials also said that British police had provided them with a list of names in the wake of the London bombings attacks, adding that Pakistan was checking the linkages. "They provided us with names of certain individuals for information following the London bombing. We are checking the linkages here," the Daily Times quoted a senior security official as saying. Police officials in Faisalabad also confirmed of four people being picked up by security agencies. "The security agencies have picked up four people. They were taken to an undisclosed location, but we were not involved in this operation," a Faisalabad police official said. A Pakistani intelligence official further said that they were also pursuing information on Shehzad Tanweer, one of the suicide bombers, who had reportedly studied at a religious school in Pakistan last year, and had two years back, in Faisalabad, met a groups of militants linked to the Al Qaeda. Pakistani authorities are also investigating whether Tanweer had links to two militant groups, understood to be Jaish Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Taiba. Both are known to have ties with the Al Qaeda network. Jaish is loosely linked with the Jamia Manzoorul Islamia seminary in Lahore, which denied British press reports that Tanweer had studied there. |
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