DHAKA: Bangladeshi police said Monday they had arrested a Pakistani national suspected of being the main local coordinator for the banned militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba. The 41-year-old Khurram, who uses only one name but also goes by the alias Mohammad Selim, is believed to have visited Bangladesh frequently to coordinate the local operations of the Pakistan-based group, police said. “He is a top member of LeT. We arrested him along with two associates from a hotel in the capital Dhaka on Saturday,” said detective police assistant commissioner Golam Azad. “We have arrested six other LeT members in recent months who all identified him as their main coordinator in Bangladesh,” Azad said, adding that Khurram had also sought out Bangladeshi militant groups to work with LeT. Last week Bangladesh's elite Rapid Action Battalion said they arrested another LeT militant from a rented house in the country's central Narayanganj district. The Pakistan-based militant group is blamed for the 2008 attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai.
