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CANBERRA, Australia - The Australian government on Wednesday re-listed Ansar al-Islam, Lashkar-e Jhangvi and Jaish-e-Mohammad, from Pakistan, and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan as terrorist organisations, Efe news agency reported. These organisations, which have been listed since 2003, would continue to be listed for another three years, according to a statement from the Australian Attorney-General's Department. Under this measure, it remains a criminal offence to direct the activities of, be a member of, recruit for, train for or receive training from these groups. It would also be a criminal offence to get funds to, from, or for, provide support to,...

A group behind assaults on Shiites in Pakistan has claimed responsibility for tandem attacks on a university bus and a hospital that killed at least 24. The Sunni extremist outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi announced on Sunday that it had sent a female suicide bomber to strike the bus in Quetta, capital of the restive Balochistan province, killing 14 students from a women's university near a Shiite neighborhood on Saturday. About 90 minutes later, a follow-up attack on the hospital treating survivors left at least 11 dead and led to a prolonged gun battle between security forces and militants occupying part of the...

PHOTO CAPTION: "Banner for the Al Qaeda 313 Brigade website/forum. Pictured, from left to right, are Mustafa Abu Yazid, Abu Laith al Libi, and Ilyas Kashmiri." ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A website connected to al Qaeda's military arm in Pakistan has sprung up on the Internet in the past month. The website, called Al Qaeda Brigade 313, at www.aqbrigade313.com, was registered on June 2, 2010, and became active in early July. The site has 86 registered users and five administrators, according to a report at the Open Source Center that was obtained by The Long War Journal. The website contains a forum...

SNIPPET - Quote: Pak raids unravel Taliban-drugs link ISLAMABAD: Pakistani authorities arrested 13 Islamist militants in separate raids that police said on Monday foiled major terrorist attacks and provided clues to how drug sales help fund the Taliban.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN -- The Pakistani Interior Ministry said Friday the suicide bomber who killed Benazir Bhutto has been identified as belonging to a militant group with links to al Qaeda, Pakistan's GEO TV reported. The ministry said the attacker was with Lashkar-e-Jhangvi -- a Sunni Muslim militant group that the Pakistani government has blamed for hundreds of killings -- according to the report. There was no sign the group has claimed responsibility for the attack on the Pakistan opposition leader. The U.S. State Department lists Lashkar-e-Jhangvi as a terrorist organization and said it had links to the Taliban. Pakistani...

LAHORE, Pakistan: A senior figure in an outlawed Sunni Muslim militant group that has been linked to al-Qaida was among six men arrested last week in eastern Pakistan, a police official said Monday. The suspect was identified as Rizwan Ahmed, 28, head of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a Sunni organization banned in 2001 over allegations that it was involved in killing Shiite Muslims, said Omar Virk, a senior detective in the eastern city of Lahore. "He was made Lashkar-e-Jhangvi chief after the arrest of Akram Lahori," another purported head of the group who was detained by police in 2002, Virk said. Ahmed and...

KARACHI, May 31 (Reuters) - Eleven people were killed in a night of violence in Karachi when a suicide attack on a mosque blamed on a group linked to al Qaeda spiralled into a riot that burned to death six at American fast-food outlet KFC. Angry Shi'ites set fire to the restaurant in revenge after five people were killed and 18 wounded in the Monday night suicide bomb blast at a mosque in Karachi's middle-class Gulshan-e-Iqbal district, police said on Tuesday. The KFC outlet was torched just minutes after the blast at the mosque. Angry Shi'ite youths also attacked a...

Islamic Militant Arrested in Pakistan March 05, 2005 QUETTA, Pakistan — An Islamic militant accused of killing as many as 130 minority Shiite Muslims (search) in separate attacks in recent years has been arrested in southwestern Pakistan, police said Friday. Ramzan Mengal, a member of an outlawed Sunni group linked to al-Qaida (search), was arrested in Quetta as he was going to a mosque for evening prayer, said Pervez Rafi Bhatti, the city's police chief. "This man was involved in all major attacks against Shiites in Quetta and elsewhere, and his arrest is a big success," Bhatti said.

Horrifying new details of how Daniel Pearl, the murdered Wall Street Journal reporter, met his death have emerged from the interrogation of new suspects by Pakistani police. Pearl, who was kidnapped in Karachi in January 2002, knew for several hours that he was about to be killed, but resisted repeated attempts to sedate him, police now believe. He was fully aware of what was happening when the Arab extremists who took control during his final days cut his throat, according to information gleaned from Pakistani militants now in police custody. Shocking video film of Pearl's murder, seen around the world...

Thu 1 April, 2004 09:07 KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistani police say they have foiled a plan to assassinate Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali in the port city of Karachi, arresting a member of an outlawed Islamic militant group with explosives. "The big target was the prime minister," Police Inspector Amjad Kayani told Reuters. The man, found with about six kg (12 lb) of explosives, a hand grenade, several detonators and bomb making material, had planned to plant a bomb under a bridge, he said. Jamali had arrived in Karachi on Wednesday for a two-day visit. He was due to leave...

QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan has detained 30 people in connection with an attack this week on minority Muslim Shi'ites in the southwestern city of Quetta, which killed 44 people and wounded at least 150, police said on Sunday. Police also registered a complaint by relatives of the slain Shi'ites against seven local members of an outlawed Sunni militant group whom they blamed them for the attack. A senior police official, who asked not to be named, told Reuters 30 people had been arrested so far in an extensive investigation into the massacre on Tuesday, when Shi'ites were observing Ashura,...

QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Troops patrolled the southern Pakistani city of Quetta Wednesday, imposing a curfew after an attack on minority Shi'ites killed 44 people and 13 more died in a stampede triggered by fears of religious violence. Relatives of victims of Tuesday's gun and grenade massacre in Quetta had to rely on military vehicles to take them to hospital, where nearly 140 people lay wounded, some of them seriously. Soldiers armed with automatic rifles and machine guns patrolled rubble-strewn streets and burned-out shops set alight by enraged Shi'ites in the city of 400,000 people. Funerals were expected to be...

KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani police have arrested two Islamic militants, including one suspected of involvement in the kidnap and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, an officer said Tuesday. The two men, Sajid Jabbar and Mohammad Athar, were arrested in an overnight raid in the port city of Karachi and belong to the outlawed Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group, Fayyaz Leghari, chief of the investigation branch of Karachi police, told Reuters. Another senior officer, who did not want to be identified, said Jabbar was suspected of involvement in the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Pearl in 2002...

KARACHI : Police in this southern port city have arrested a suspect in last week's bombing of a Christian Bible society and seized a huge cache of explosives, authorities said. Shamim Ahmed, a Pakistani man allegedly affiliated with the Islamic militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, was arrested Saturday in Karachi . Information he provided led police to the discovery late yesterday of a bomb-making factory in an abandoned house elsewhere in the city. A senior police officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Ahmed was believed to be linked to the Jan. 15 attack in which a grenade and powerful car...

New Delhi: The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, the banned anti-Shia militant outfit in Pakistan, has claimed responsibility for last week's attack on a mosque in Quetta, Balochistan, in which 53 devotees were killed. The Pakistani daily, The Nation, reported that a video tape and a letter was sent to the BBC correspondent stationed in Quetta and the news was broadcast by the British television network. In the tape, a 17-year-old boy, one of the three suicide bombers, is shown delivering a 10-minute speech against the Shia sect. In a letter delivered along with the tape, the writer accepted responsibility that Lashkar-e-Jhangvi was involved...

MULTAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani police said on Monday they had arrested a prominent Islamic militant and four associates from a group linked to the murder of U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl and bloody bombings of Western targets. Shahab-uddin, alias Imran, a provincial chief of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, one of Pakistan's most feared militant groups, was arrested overnight in the central city of Multan, they said. "He was among the top five terrorists of Pakistan and most wanted man of Lashkar," Multan's deputy police chief, Iftikhar Ahmad Chaudhry, told a news conference. "He was wanted for several attacks on Shi'ites and...

MULTAN, Pakistan — An Islamic militant, suspected of helping plan the kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, told police interrogators he had Pakistani politicians on a hit-list and was organizing homicide attacks, an official said Friday. The suspect, Qari Abdul Hai, the alleged leader of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi militant group, was arrested from a bus station in Muzaffargarh, 60 miles west of Multan, on Thursday. He was about to board a bus for the southern city of Karachi, where Pearl was kidnapped and later killed. Hai came to Muzaffargarh about 12 days ago to allegedly organize suicide attacks,...

<p>MULTAN, Pakistan - An Islamic militant accused of helping to plan the kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was arrested at a bus station in central Pakistan on Thursday, police said.</p> <p>The suspect, Qari Abdul Hai, who allegedly had close ties with the Taliban, is the chief of a banned militant group condemned by the United States as a terrorist organization, police said. The group has been accused of involvement in bombings at public places in Pakistan.</p>

The United States has designated a banned Pakistani Islamic group a terrorist organisation. Secretary of State Colin Powell accused Lashkar-e-Jhangvi of close links with Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network. He said the group was also guilty of numerous bus and church bombings. Lashkar-e-Jhangvi was banned in Pakistan 18 months ago as part of President Musharraf's clampdown on Islamic extremists. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said the group was involved in the kidnapping and subsequent murder a year ago in Karachi of US journalist Daniel Pearl. Mr Boucher said Lashkar-e-Jhangvi had also killed four oil workers in 1997 in the same...

MULTAN: Two suspected militants wanted for their involvement in a massacre at a Catholic church last year were killed in a fierce 18-hour gunbattle on Sunday, Pakistani police said. The two men, members of the Sunni Islamic extremist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, were being sought for their role in the October 28 attack on St. Dominic's Roman Catholic Church in Behawalpur, 730 km southwest of Islamabad. Sixteen people were killed in the attack. The two suspects died in a shootout on Sunday in Jhang, a remote farming area in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province, Senior Police Superintendent Tariq Masood said. Police said a...