| The six militants arrested in a Chauburji mosque last Saturday admitted during interrogations that they had planned suicide attacks on foreign consuls, imambargahs and mosques, sources told Daily Times. Sources said the intelligence agencies had been watching the militants for a while. When the six gathered at the Al-Hilal mosque in Chauburji, once the central office of the Harkatul Jihad-e-Islami, a joint law enforcement and intelligence agency team arrested them. The six men were identified as Qari Iqbal, the Imam of Masjid Alhilal, Qari Ramzan of the banned militant group Milat-e-Islamia Pakistan, (MIP) and four others from banned militant group Khuddamul Islam (KI). Sources said they were wanted for several terrorist incidents, including the assassination attempts on President General Pervez Musharraf. During interrogation, Qari Ramzan, who had a Rs 300,000 price on his head, and one of the KI militants said they planned terrorist attacks on foreign consuls, imambargahs, mosques and other sensitive places in Lahore. The militants are believed to be working on instructions from Malik Ishaq, one of the most wanted terrorists of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. After the six militants were arrested, the authorities deployed extra police around mosques, petrol pumps and other sensitive sites. The bomb disposal squads, fire brigade and civil aviation were told to take protective measures. |