POLICE in Pakistan said yesterday they were holding seven Islamic militants with possible links to the suspects in the London suicide bombings, as a probe into the suspected ties focused on the city of Lahore.

Police in Lahore today said they were holding some Islamic militants who may have had links with the suspects in the London suicide bombings, as investigators try to assess whether extremists in Pakistan were involved in the July 7 attacks.

THE British government yesterday flatly rejected an influential think-tank report which said Britain’s role in the war on Iraq left it more vulnerable to terror attacks such as the July 7 bombings.

THREE of the four suspected suicide bombers in the July 7 attacks in London travelled to Karachi in southern Pakistan last year, an immigration official said yesterday, as authorities tried to determine whether extremists in Pakistan had aided the deadly attacks.

Three of the four suspected suicide bombers in the July 7 attacks in London travelled to Karachi in southern Pakistan in 2004, but the purpose of their visits was unclear, an immigration official said today.

BRITISH secret services last year vetted one of the bombers behind the London attacks and judged he was not a threat, reports claimed yesterday.

Pakistani intelligence agents believe one of the London suicide bombers visited a religious school run by an al Qaida-linked terror group, two senior officials said today.

Authorities in Pakistan are looking into a connection between one of the London suicide bombers and two al-Qaida-linked militant groups there, including a man arrested for a 2002 attack on a church near the US Embassy, two senior intelligence officials said today.

Investigators are looking into a tip that one of the suspects in the London bombing may have visited Pakistan last year and spent time at an Islamic school, according to a senior intelligence official.

DETECTIVES are continuing the hunt for the mastermind behind the attacks and the bombers’ support network.

Four young, home-grown terrorists are believed to have carried out the London attacks – the first suicide bombings in Britain – which killed at least 52 commuters.

HOMEGROWN suicide bombers were responsible for the London bus and train atrocities, it was revealed last night.

THERE was disbelief last night among residents of a quiet Leeds street at the possibility that one of the London bombers may have lived among them.