Mumbai attack: 2 held

ROME: Italian police on Saturday arrested a Pakistani father and son accused of helping fund and providing logistical support for last year’s terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, authorities said. The two were arrested in an early morning raid in Brescia, where they managed a money transfer agency, police in the northern Italian city said. The day before the attacks began on November 26 they allegedly sent money using a stolen identity to a US company to activate Internet phone accounts used by the attackers and their handlers, said Stefano Fonsi, the head of anti-terror police in Brescia. The transfer was just $229 but gave the attackers five lines over the Internet, which are difficult to trace and allowed militants to keep in touch even during the rampage, Fonsi said. Italian police began the probe in December after being alerted by the FBI and Indian police about the transfer.

Triple blast in POK

ISLAMABAD: Three suspected militants blew themselves up as police gave chase on Saturday in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, authorities said. No other casualties were reported, but the incident underscored fears that militants are preparing attacks in other areas as retaliation for an army offensive under way in the Afghan border region of South Waziristan. The three men in POK fled after police acting on a tip-off raided their hide-out in the Thori area of regional capital Muzaffarabad. Police pursued them and the men detonated explosives on their bodies after being trapped on a mountain.