Islamabad: Pakistani security forces took over a camp used by Lashkar-e-Toiba militants in Pakistani Kashmir on Sunday, a witness and an official from a charity linked to Lashkar said.
"This happened this afternoon, security forces took over the camp," said an official with the Jamaat-ud-Dawa charity.
The charity official said security forces arrested some fighters from Lashkar, the prime suspect in the attacks on Mumbai that killed at least 171 people.
Local man Nisar Ali said the raid began in the afternoon in Shawai on the outskirts of Muzaffarabad, the capital of the Pakistani side of disputed Kashmir region.
"I don't know details as the entire area was sealed off but I heard two loud blasts in the evening after a military helicopter landed there," Ali said.
Pakistan banned Lashkar after it was blamed for the December, 2001, attack on India's parliament, which brought the two countries on the brink of a fourth war.
Pakistan also put Jamaat-ud-Dawa on a watch-list and was added several years later the list of terrorist organisations by the United States.
Lashkar founder, Hafiz Saeed, one of the most wanted men in India, quit the group in 2001 but remained head of the charity.
India says the only gunman captured alive during the attacks on Mumbai told investigators he underwent months of training in guerrilla warfare organised by Lashkar-e-Toiba in Pakistan.
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