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To: SirRealist who wrote (15180)	12/31/2001 4:04:20 AM
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Two India Times of India: Pakistan puts Lashkar chief too in jail ISLAMABAD: In a fresh crackdown on terrorist groups on Monday, Pakistan arrested Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafeez Saeed and more than two dozen members of Lashkar and Jaish-e-Mohammed. Saeed was charged with making inflammatory speeches and inciting people to violence, quoting official sources in the Pakistan government. On Sunday, Jaish chief Masood Azhar was remanded to judicial custody for 90 days. It was not immediately clear where Saeed was being held or if he was in jail or under house arrest, which the government has often used to restrict the movement of militant leaders without further angering their constituencies. The Pak interior ministry officials confirmed his detention Monday morning. The Karachi city police chief Tariq Jamil told AFP "We have arrested over two dozen of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad's activists as a preventative security measure," "Though most of their offices have already been closed by them, we did search the ones which were opened," he said. timesofindia.com ----------------------------- LeT chief's arrest a step forward, says India EW DELHI: India said Monday that Pakistan's reported arrest of the leader of the Lashkar-e-Taiba separatist group and other militants would be a "step forward" if confirmed. "If this information is correct, this is certainly a step forward in the right direction," Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh told reporters after a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security. Singh said he hoped such steps would be "pursued vigorously" so that cross-border terrorism could be eliminated. India had dismissed previous measures taken by Pakistan as "cosmetic" but Singh said international pressure, arising from evidence furnished by India, seemed to have finally borne fruit. "As far as evidence of terrorist activities is concerned it has been provided in sufficent measure to the international community, and it is largely on that ground that Pakistan has now begun to act," he said. timesofindia.com