Rawalpindi police have arrested two members of the banned militant organisation Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, who they say were close to the alleged mastermind of the assassination attempts on President Musharraf in 2003. The two men - Syed Hameed ud Din and Israar ud Din - were arrested at Committee Chowk in Rawalpindi on Thursday evening, said Saud Aziz, the Rawalpindi district police officer (DPO). Aziz said that sources had tipped off the police about the two men’s presence in the area, upon which the authorities took prompt action and made the arrests. Two hand-grenades and other weapons were recovered from the men, along with maps of ‘sensitive places’, the Rawalpindi DPO said. Aziz said that the two men were waiting to meet with another man at Committee Chowk, and had planned to proceed to Islamabad together. He said that the men were being interrogated by intelligence agencies at an undisclosed location. Aziz said that the two men were close allies of Amjad Farooqi, the alleged architect of the assassination attempts on the president on December 14 and 25, 2003. Farooqi was subsequently killed in a police encounter in May, 2004.