Police seize Shiite massacre 'mastermind'

Police who raided a militant hideout said today they arrested the alleged mastermind of major sectarian attacks that killed more than 100 minority Shiite Muslims in south-western Pakistan.

Habib Ullah, a leader of the outlawed Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Sunni militant group, was captured yesterday at a home in Quetta, provincial police chief Chaudhry Mohammed Yaqub said.