By NNN-PTI,
Islamabad : Close on the heels of arrest of suspected Mumbai strikes mastermind Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, Pakistan has detained another top LeT commander Zarar Shah, who is believed to have set up the hi-tech communication system that enabled the 10 terrorists to keep in touch with their handlers in this country.
The capture of the two top Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) commanders — Shah and Lakhvi — was formally announced on Wednesday by Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani.
Shah and Lakhvi “are in custody and are being investigated,” Gilani said without giving details, hours after Pakistan gave an undertaking to the UN Security Council that it would proscribe the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the front organisation of LeT, should the world body decide to ban the group as a terrorist outfit and impose sanctions against it.
The detention of the two key LeT members by Pakistani security forces comes in the wake of intense international pressure on Islamabad to act against the perpetrators of the Mumbai carnage.
Lakhvi is among the terrorists and criminals whose handing over India has demanded from Pakistan.
The New York Times has reported that the Mumbai attackers and their handlers based in Pakistan used Voice Over Internet Protocol phone services for communication to make it more difficult for investigators to trace their locations.
The paper quoted American officials as saying that Shah was one of Lashar-e-Toiba’s main liaisons man with the Pakistani military intelligence.
While announcing the detention of Shah and Lakhvi, Gilani said the law will take its own course if they are found involved in acts of terror.