Pakistan targets suspected Mumbai attackers

The identities of those arrested was not immediately known, but Dawn newspaper reported one of them was Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, an alleged militant named by India as one of the masterminds of the attacks on Mumbai.

U.S. and Indian suspicions that Pakistan-based militants carried out and plotted the attacks have sharply raised tensions between South Asia's only nuclear-armed nations.

Pakistan's civilian government is under intense international pressure to crack down on the extremists and demonstrate they have no links to its shadowy intelligence agencies.

New Delhi says the Mumbai siege was carried out and plotted by militants belonging to Laskhar-e-Taiba, a Pakistani group accused of other attacks on Indian soil.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday there was "no doubt" that the attacks were planned on Pakistani soil.

Troops exchanged fire with suspected extremists during Sunday's raid on the camp close to the town of Muzaffarabad in the Pakistani part of the disputed Kashmir region, two militants said.

A senior intelligence official said a helicopter was used in the raid,

He said more than 12 detainees were being questioned over any possible links to the Mumbai attacks and several injured people were being treated at a military hospital.

He spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of his job.

The militants said the camp was used until 2004 by Laskhar-e-Taiba to train recruits to fight Indian rule in its section of the Kashmir. More recently, it was used by Lashkar's parent organization Jamaat-ud-Dawa for education and charity work, they said.

The militants declined to give their names because they belong to an illegal organization.

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