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Pakistan holds five suspected Islamic militants HYDERABAD, Pakistan, Friday (Reuters) Pakistani police said on Thursday they had arrested five suspected Islamic militants who had plotted to kill foreigners and leaders of minority communities in the mainly Muslim nation. Senior police official Ghulam Mohammad Malkani said the men belonged to an Islamic militant group blamed for last year's bombing outside the U.S. consulate in the southern port city of Karachi. He said the members of the al-Almi offshoot of the Harkat-ul Mujahideen group had been arrested on Wednesday in separate raids in Hyderabad, 160 km (100 miles) northeast of Karachi. "We have recovered lists of foreigners and minority leaders they had plotted to kill in Hyderabad," Malkani, Hyderabad's deputy police chief, told reporters. He said the men were also suspected of involvement in several bomb blasts in Hyderabad in recent months. Al-Almi is a splinter faction of the Harkat-ul Mujahideen which is fighting Indian rule in the disputed Kashmir region. Twelve Pakistanis were killed when suspected al-Almi members packed a vehicle with explosives and rammed it into the perimeter wall of the U.S. Consulate in June last year. No foreigners or consulate staff were killed. A Pakistani court convicted four members of the group in April for organising the attack, handing down death sentences to two of them. The group is also accused of carrying out a failed assassination attempt on President Pervez Musharraf last year. |
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