2 Held in 2002 Pakistan Blasts
Pakistani security forces have arrested an Islamic militant suspected of involvement in a June 2002 bomb attack on the U.S. Consulate in Karachi in which 12 Pakistanis were killed, officials said Thursday.
The suspect, Rana Naveed-ul-Hasan, a member of the shadowy Harkat-ul-Mujahedin al-Almi militant group, was arrested Wednesday in the town of Wagah, on the border with India. He was working there as a merchant, intelligence officials said.
Four people have already been convicted of involvement in the blast, two of whom were sentenced to death.
An intelligence source said authorities arrested another militant Thursday who they suspect was involved in the March 2002 bombing of a Protestant church in Islamabad, in which two Americans were killed.
Osama Nazir, a member of the outlawed Jaish-e-Muhammad militant group, was arrested in Punjab province.
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