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Pakistan army bombs suspected militant base

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Pakistan’s armed forces have moved in against a base camp used by banned militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba in Pakistani administered Kashmir. Several witnesses reported loud explosions and dozens of army personnel travelling to the area. Helicopters and armoured vehicles were also spotted at the scene.
The Indian government has claimed that the terroist group responsible for the Mumbai attacks are operating out of this base camp in the heart of Pakistan. Pakistan is under severe pressure from both the Indian and American Governments to act upon the un-provoked attacks on Mumbai and other regional parts of India as quickly as possible.
A number of suspects were arrested in Pakistan however it was not confirmed that anyone arresteted was in direct connection with the terrorist attacks on Indian cities. It was also reported that one of the arrested men was the Laskar-e-Taiba leader Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi. The terrorist base camp, at Shawai on the outskirts of Muzaffarabad, is run by the Islamic charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa, widely seen as a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba, which was itself banned in late 2002.Residents who were in the neighbouring area said that the Pakistan army blew up buildings at the camp which has an office, religious school and residential area housing about 150 people in total. The associated press news agency quoted militants as saying that the base camp had been seized by the military yet those statements have not been confirmed by the Indian government.
Lashkar-e-Taiba (Soldiers of the Pure) is one of the most feared terrorist groups fighting against the Indian control in the region of Kashmir. Although various government groups had halted the activities of this terrorist group some time ago it was discovered that none of their camps and places of operation were closed at all.
All of the terroist attacks on Mumbai and other various cities around India have sparked growing pressure on the Pakistan government to act as quickly as possible to diffuse militant groups from making the same attack again. The assault on various camps in Pakistan will diffuse the tension temporarily but something has got to be done for the long term as this is quite simply not acceptable.

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