Pak claims arrest of 3 ‘RAW-trained’ spies

He claimed that the trio used to provide photographs of important places to the RAW,while some important buildings were on their target,the report said.

“They were also involved in a bomb blast in Lahore in 2006,in which 16 people were injured,” Rathor was quoted by the channel as telling a press conference here. The CCPO claimed that the three had visited India too.

Another channel Dawn News quoted Rathor as saying that the alleged terrorists were planning sectarian violence in Pakistan.

He was quoted as claiming that the three crossed the border seven times and “confessed” to documenting some important assets of the banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa,the front organisation of the Lashkar-e-Toiba blamed for the Mumbai attacks.

Rathor said that the three Pakistani citizens were arrested in a village close to the Indian border earlier in the day. He said Jamaat-ud-Dawa was allegedly their next target.

The Pakistani media had reported last month that security agencies had arrested four alleged Indian nationals for involvement in a bomb attack in Lahore.

Soon after,a pro-Taliban group called Ansar Wa Mohajir claimed responsibility for the same blast and there were no further reports on the arrested persons.