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| 10/30/05 at 05:38:57 |
| Five suspected militants arrested for collecting donations for quake victims uploaded 29 Oct 2005 Police in southern Pakistan on Saturday arrested five suspected members of an outlawed Islamic militant group for collecting donations for victims of the South Asian earthquake, an investigator said. Mamoor Khan, a police inspector, said the five men had been collecting donations in the southern city of Karachi in the name of a charity, Al-Rahmat Trust, recently set up the militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed. "We arrested them because they are from Jaish-e-Mohammed, which is not allowed to carry out any activity," he said. President Gen. Pervez Musharraf banned Jaish-e-Mohammed in January 2002 in an effort to crackdown on extremist groups. Its members have fought Indian troops in divided Kashmir, where for 16 years insurgents have been seeking its independence or merger with Pakistan. The group also has close ties with the Taliban, and is suspected of links with al-Qaida and involvement in terrorist attacks inside Pakistan. Many Islamic charities and militant groups using new names have been collecting donations or delivering aid to victims of the Oct. 8 quake, which is believed to have killed about 80,000 people and left more than 3 million people homeless. This was the first reported instance of police arresting people with alleged ties to militancy for collecting donations. Source: AP |
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