SL cricket team attack: Mastermind nabbed

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Pakistan has arrested the head of a banned Sunni extremist group accused of inciting sectarian hatred and masterminding an attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in 2009, police said today.

Malik Ishaq, leader of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) which is said to have links to al Qaeda, was arrested in the eastern city of Lahore after his return from a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, police spokeswoman Nabila Ghazanfar said.

“I can confirm his arrest,” she said, adding that Ishaq will be produced in a local court today.

Police had registered a case against him after his “provocative speech to spread sectarian hatred” at a religious gathering in Lahore earlier this month.
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, regarded as Pakistan’s fiercest Sunni extremist group, was banned more than a decade ago by former president Pervez Musharraf.
It is accused of killing hundreds of minority Shia Muslims after its emergence in the early 1990s.

Ishaq was arrested in 1997 and is implicated in dozens of cases, mostly murder. He was released on bail in July last year after serving a jail term of nearly 14 years.

Officials said since his release he had been frequently put under house arrest as his sermons raised sectarian tensions.

Ishaq was also accused of masterminding the 2009 attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore, which wounded seven players and an assistant coach and killed eight Pakistanis.

The attacks saw Pakistan stripped of its right to co-host last year’s cricket World Cup. (AFP)

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S. Dsilva Saturday, 01 September 2012 06:01 AM

PMs of SL and Pakistan were stating that it was carried out by Tamil Tigers! How can it be different now.

ss Saturday, 01 September 2012 04:17 PM

Poor LTTE, they were accused even for this incident....! Hope they are not accused for z-score as well.

nalaka Sunday, 02 September 2012 03:09 AM

may be LTTE had links with other terror organizations

Alwis Sunday, 02 September 2012 05:04 PM

Dr.Palitha Kohona accused the LTTE were behind this incident, now what does he have to say

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