| LAHORE: Law enforcement agencies on Saturday arrested five men, including Allah Wasaya, a leader of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ) from Ghaziabad. Allah Wasaya is one of the accused in the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and the government had announced a Rs 1 million award for his arrest. The arrests came a day after three suicide bombers killed more than 40 Shia Muslims in a mosque in Balochistan. It was not immediately clear if the arrests were related to Fridayâs massacre. âAt this stage we can only say that five people are in our custody for suspected links with outlawed sectarian groups,â Lahore City Police Chief (CPC) Khwaja Khalid Farooq told reporters. He said heavy contingents of police and other law enforcement agencies had been deputed at mosques and imambargahs and the police had increased patrols around other âsensitiveâ places in the city. Security has also been intensified at bus stands, the Railway Station and the Lahore Airport while intelligence agencies are scrutinising the logbooks of various hotels, he added. |