Pakistani man linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba arrested in South Korea's Seoul
The man, arrested on August 2, worked as a clerk at a local market in Seoul's Itaewon district, according to koreaherald.com.
Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency officials said the suspect in his 40s was arrested in violation of the Act on Counter-Terrorism and the Immigration Act.
The man is suspected to have joined LeT in Pakistan in 2020, underwent training in handling weapons and infiltration tactics following which he was accepted as an official member of the terror outfit.
He entered South Korea in December 2023 and had secured a visa from from a South Korean consulate in Pakistan in September that year allegedly by posing as a businessman wanting to establish a business in the country, the report said.
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