Police have arrested three militants who admitted to plotting a suicide attack at the international airport in India’s capital, an official said Saturday. The men, based in neighboring Pakistan, were arrested several days ago in the Indian-portion of the Himalayan region of Kashmir, said Gopal Sharma, police chief of Jammu-Kashmir state. During their interrogation, the men said they planned a suicide attack later this month at Indira Gahdhi International Airport in New Delhi, Sharma said. The three have been identified as Assan Ulah, Mohammed Bashir and Rashid, who goes by only one name, Sharma said. All three are from Pakistan, he added. Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based guerrilla group, was behind the plan, he said.
| The objective of the plan, of course, would be to derail the Pak-Indo Kashmir peace talks. |
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