Eight Arrested in Pakistan for Ten Christians Murdered*

Lahore (Pakistan), SVM News, July 1, 2007:  Eight Islamic militants have
been arrested in Pakistan on July 1st for the attack towards Christian
school children and nurses on August 2002, in which 10 people were killed.

Masood Aziz, the senior police officer said, "The suspecting militants
were caught by special police of Lahore city".

"We catched them when we were plotting another attack, for we had
information about militants planning a serious terrorist attack in the
province of Baluchistan," he told.

"The militants were supplying suicide bombers and explosive devices to
Taliban fighters in neighbouring Afghanistan," an officer said to Rev.
Paul Ciniraj, the Director of the Salem Voice Ministries and the SVM
News Service. "They were led by the banned militant groups named
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Al-Furqan, based in Quetta of Baluchistan," police
officer added.

The gang leaders are suspecting as Mufti Saghir Ahmed, a veteran of the
1980s war against invading Soviet troops in Afghanistan, and Mohammad
Safeer, another militant.

Both Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Al-Furqan are Sunni muslim groups and they
are believed to have links with al Qaeda. They used to collect materials
and volunteers from the central province of Punjab.

Pakistan has arrested hundreds of al Qaeda members, including several
leaders, and sympathisers since joining the American led international
campaign against terrorism, launched after the 2001 attacks on the
United States.

The suspects were believed linked to two attacks.

In the first, militants attacked a school for the children of foreign
missionaries on August 5, 2005 at the hill town of Murree, 50 kms
northeast of Islamabad, in which they killed six Christians.