 Police in northern Pakistan have arrested two Islamic militants suspected in the slaying of two local aid workers, a police official said yesterday. Unidentified assailants fatally shot two Pakistani aid workers in a December 25 attack on the office of the Aga Khan Foundation in Chitral. Yesterday, local police official Ali Khan said officers had arrested two men in a raid on Monday, adding they were "directly involved" in the December 25 killing of the aid workers. He didn't elaborate.
He said police believed the two men were members of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi militant group, which the government banned in January 2001 in an effort to purge the country of extremists. The group is accused of killing minority Shi'ite Muslims and attacking Christians. Police were still looking for three other members of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi who allegedly participated in the attack in Chitral, a remote region near Afghanistan where Pakistani forces have been carrying out operations to flush out foreign militants and their local supporters. Khan added that police also seized an assault rifle during the raid, but would not say whether the gun had been used in the attack. The Aga Khan Foundation, which is run by the spiritual head of Ismaili Muslims in Pakistan, supervises health clinics in many parts of Pakistan.
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