India demands arrest of 20 other alleged terrorists

India has delivered to Pakistan a list of 20 other suspected terrorists it wants arrested and handed over.

It calls Pakistan's arrest of an Islamic militant group leader accused of plotting the attack on its Parliament a "step forward".

But cross-border shelling between the two countries resumed and left two Indian soldiers dead.

Nine militants and one soldier were also killed in separate incidents near Srinagar, the summer capital of the disputed Kashmir region.

Hafiz Saeed, until last week the leader of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, was arrested on Sunday in Islamabad, Pakistani Interior Ministry officials say. He was charged with making inflammatory speeches and inciting violence, the Associated Press of Pakistan reported.

"The government has received information about action taken by Pakistan against the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba and Jaish-e-Mohammed, including the arrest of some of its leaders and raids on some of their premises," Indian Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh said after a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security.

"If the information is confirmed, it's a step forward in the right direction."

He said, however, that New Delhi isn't satisfied that Islamabad has done enough to prevent Islamic militants from launching attacks in India's disputed Himalayan state of Jammu-Kashmir and elsewhere.

Later on Monday, India handed over to officials at the Pakistan High Commission a list of 20 suspected terrorists in Pakistan, said Indian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Nirupama Rao.

Included on the list of 20 suspected terrorists were Dawood Ibrahim, chief suspect in the 1993 blast of the World Trade Center in Bombay; Masood Azhar, a suspect freed from an Indian prison in exchange for the release of hostages aboard an Indian Airlines aircraft hijacked on Christmas Day 1999; and those allegedly involved in attacks in Punjab and Jammu-Kashmir states.