Read near the end of the article to get to the RAW agent part. Is this for real or is this going to be a standard line to justify involving FBI agents in raids within Pakistan?
http://www.nandotimes.com/world/story/567011p-4456279c.html
World: FBI agents join raid on refugee camp in Pakistan
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By PAUL HAVEN, Associated Press
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (October 8, 2002 4:30 p.m. EDT) - Pakistani commandos and FBI agents raided a refugee camp Tuesday, arresting a man they said was linked to a renegade Afghan commander. Elsewhere, police detained at least five men accused of working with rival India to sabotage upcoming parliamentary elections.
More than 100 black-clad anti-terrorist police stormed the remote Shamshatoo refugee camp in northwest Pakistan and arrested Khan Mohammed, an Afghan that authorities say was head of security for warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.
Hekmatyar’s Hezb-e-Islami group is opposed to the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, has called for a “holy war” against America and warned of stepped up terrorist attacks on U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
Four other men - three Pakistanis and an Afghan whom authorities identified as Afsar Khan - also were arrested at the refuge camp.
All were being questioned about a series of attacks in Pakistan on Western and Christian targets. They include a June car bombing outside the U.S. Consulate in Karachi that killed 12 Pakistanis, and the killings last month of seven Christian charity workers.
Authorities say they also want to question the men about two attacks in August near Islamabad - one on a Christian missionary school and the other against a Presbyterian hospital.
At least 37 people have been killed and about 100 injured in acts of violence against Christians and Westerners in recent months. About 3.8 million Christians - some 2.5 percent of the population - live in Pakistan, which is 96 percent Muslim.
Meanwhile, authorities said they arrested at least five men accused of links to India’s intelligence agency, called the Research and Analysis Wing or RAW, accused of plotting to sabotage Thursday’s parliamentary elections.
The elections are the first for Pakistan since a 1999 coup by President Gen. Pervez Musharraf ended democratic rule.
Police in Rawalpindi, just outside the capital, paraded three of the men before journalists, and displayed weapons - including 40 pounds of plastic explosives, pistols and hand grenades - seized when the men were arrested hiding under a bridge near Pakistani controlled Kashmir.
The men, all bearded and wearing black blindfolds, were taken out of an armored police vehicle in a courtyard at the local police station, as machine-gun toting security forces looked on from overhead.
“Our intelligence agencies have arrested some terrorists who had been sent to Pakistan by the Indian (spy agency) RAW with explosive material and live bombs in order to carry out attacks on polling stations,” Information Minister Nisar Memon told The Associated Press.
Pakistan and India routinely accuse each other of fomenting violence, usually with little proof. Rawalpindi Police Chief Inayat Farooq said the men confessed to plotting bombings in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, and had given specific information about Indian officers who had instructed them to carry out the attacks.
“Yes, the Indian government is behind all of this,” Farooq said. “The Indians don’t want Pakistan to be a stable country.”
Also on Tuesday, police in the eastern city of Lahore said they had arrested two Pakistani men accused of working for India to plant bombs on election day in the eastern Punjab province.
The men were arrested in the border town of Kasur just after they crossed the Indian border and entered Pakistan, according to senior police official Javed Noor. Noor said both men had confessed.
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