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Pakistan says it has arrested more than 120 people in a crackdown on groups allegedly linked to the Mumbai attacks. | Pakistan says it has arrested more than 120 people in a crackdown on groups allegedly linked to the Mumbai attacks. |
Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik said officials had shut a number of schools run by a charity linked to the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group. | Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik said officials had shut a number of schools run by a charity linked to the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group. |
Mr Malik said the move showed Pakistan was serious about fighting extremism, but it needed more information from India to prosecute suspects in court. | Mr Malik said the move showed Pakistan was serious about fighting extremism, but it needed more information from India to prosecute suspects in court. |
India says the attacks were plotted in Pakistan. Islamabad denies any link. | India says the attacks were plotted in Pakistan. Islamabad denies any link. |
Militant camps | |
Relations between the two countries have deteriorated sharply since the November attacks which left at least 173 dead. | Relations between the two countries have deteriorated sharply since the November attacks which left at least 173 dead. |
Earlier this week, India's interior minister accused Pakistan of doing nothing to apprehend those behind the Mumbai (Bombay) attacks and said ties could "snap" if it did not co-operate in the investigation. | Earlier this week, India's interior minister accused Pakistan of doing nothing to apprehend those behind the Mumbai (Bombay) attacks and said ties could "snap" if it did not co-operate in the investigation. |
School of terror?Lashkar-e-Taiba profile | |
Pakistan has dismissed India's dossier of evidence linking the attacks to elements in Pakistan as merely "information". | Pakistan has dismissed India's dossier of evidence linking the attacks to elements in Pakistan as merely "information". |
Mr Malik said the authorities had so far closed down 87 institutions - including seven madrassas (religious schools) belonging to the banned Jamaat-ud-dawa Islamic charity. The organisation is widely seen as a political front for Lashkar-e-Taiba. | |
They authorities also say that several militant camps linked to the 87 institutions have also been closed down, in addition to the main Lashkar-e-Taiba base in Pakistani-administered Kashmir, which was shut in December. | |
The group's main commander, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, who has been named in India as being linked to the Mumbai attacks, was one of those arrested at that time. | |
Mr Malik made clear that the arrests had taken place since early December. | |
The UN Security Council last month ruled that he and three other Lashkar-e-Taiba members should face sanctions for links with al-Qaeda and the Taleban. | |
They were issued with an assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo. | |
The Security Council panel also said that the charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa was a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba and subject to sanctions. | |
The Pakistani government says that all those arrested are still in custody and all will be dealt with under the Pakistani criminal justice system rather than be deported to India. | |
"We have done our best and the onus is now on India," Mr Malik said. | |
He said that a committee had also been formed of high level police officials to monitor the activities of Jamaat-ud-Dawa. | |
The BBC's Syed Shoaib Hasan says that doubts however remain over the effectiveness of the latest crackdown, especially given Jamaat-ud-Dawa's growing role as a rich charity in an impoverished nation. | |
Our correspondent says that there is also concern that that the group's main centre of operations in Muridke outside Lahore remains open and many senior leaders remain operative. |