Kashmir Attack: Indian police claim LeT link

Police in Indian Kashmir say they arrested four people, including a Pakistani national linked with LeT after attack.

SRINAGAR: Police in Indian-administered Kashmir on Tuesday said they had arrested four people, including a Pakistani national from Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), over an attack that left five policemen dead.

Abdul Gani Mir, Kashmir’s top law enforcement officer, said investigators had concluded that the attack was planned by LeT, a banned organisation also blamed for mass killings in Mumbai in 2008.

“The arrested include Zubair alias Talha Zarar of LeT who came from Multan (in Pakistan),” inspector general of police Mir told reporters.

Two heavily armed militants attacked a group of Central Reserve Police Force personnel in the compound of a police-run school last week, killing five of them and injuring 10 others including four civilians.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 20^th, 2013.