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Pakistan blames India for 2021 bombing near militant's home

Police officials examine the site of bomb explosion, in Lahore, Pakistan, Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022. [AP Photo]

Pakistan's interior minister on Tuesday accused neighboring India of orchestrating last year's car bombing in Lahore, near the residence of a militant leader suspected of orchestrating deadly attacks in Mumbai in 2008.

Rana Sanaullah Khan said at a news conference that several Pakistani suspects had been arrested, prosecuted and convicted by Pakistani courts in recent months over their links to the June 2021 bombing, which killed three people. The explosion went off near the home of Hafiz Saeed, who is the founder of the outlawed Lashkar-e-Taiba group.

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