CHITRAL: Six members of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ) militant organisation have been arrested for "planning attacks" against the Shandur polo festival, where President General Pervez Musharraf and western diplomats were expected to watch the final match tomorrow (Sunday), official sources said on Saturday. They said that that the men were arrested at Shandur town, bordering Chitral and Gilgit districts, on Thursday, a day before the opening of the three-day festival, which is played at an altitude of 12,300 feet in the foothills of the Hindu Kush Mountains. "We suspect they were planning attacks on (the) closing day of the festival when VVIPs are expected," sources said, adding that they did not believe a sectarian motive was behind the planned attacks. "LJ's deputy leader Mohammad Shakir is among six arrested militants," sources told Daily Times on condition of anonymity. "The militants were planning sabotage attacks during the polo festival."