Pakistani Man Arrested In South Korea For Alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba Links: Report | World News

Korea Herald, South Korean police, the militant group Lashkar-E-Taiba (Let), responsible for the 2008 Mumbai attacks, arrested a Pakistani man working as a market officer in the Itaewon region of Seoul.

According to the report, Gyeonggi Nambu State Police Agency officials said that 40-year-old defendants were arrested on August 2 for violating the Anti-Terror Law and Migration Law in Seoul, Itaewon-Dong.

According to the police, the defendant Seoul worked in a local market in Itaewon-Dong.

According to the police, the suspect became a member of Lashkar-E-Taiba in Pakistan in 2020, where he received training in arms processing and infiltration techniques. In December 2023, he officially entered the group before he entered South Korea. In December 2023, South Korea entered South Korea in September using a visa from the South Korean Consulate in Pakistan, posing as a businessman aiming to start a business in the country.

According to Korea Herald, the suspect is not accused of planning or carrying out any terrorist acts within South Korea, but the membership of Lashkar-E-Taiba, the citizens who prohibit participation in terrorist groups and violates the 17th article of the Anti-Terror Law to protect public security.

Police investigate whether any fund transfer to Lashkar-E-Taiba. It is believed that this was the first case of South Korean officials who arrested a group of a terrorist organization by the United Nations Security Council.

Lashkar-E-Taiba (Let) is a Pakistan-based militant organization appointed by the United Nations by the United Nations as a terrorist group by the United Nations in May 2005 by the United Nations.

The group caused 26 civilians and 20 injuries, including the 2008 Mumbai attacks and the last 2025 expensive attack in Kashmir, which was ruled by India, which caused 175 deaths.

The expensive attack on April 22 by five armed terrorists killed 26 civilians. The Resistance Front (TRF), a terrorist group of Pakistani-based Lashkar-E-Taiba (let), and a terrorist group considered as a proxy, claimed the responsibility of the attack. In July 2025, the United States declared a foreign terrorist organization and a specially determined global terrorist group to the Trf and accepted its participation in the expensive attack and other terrorist activities.