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NEW DELHI, Thursday (AFP). Police in New Delhi said Thursday they had arrested two members of a Pakistan-based Mulsim militant group and seized eight kilograms (18 pounds) of explosives for use in a bombing campaign.

The two men, alleged to be members of the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen group fighting against Indian rule in Kashmir, were arrested Wednesday night in the parking lot of a cinema in South Delhi, said Deputy Police Commissioner Ashok Chand. Chand said both men were Pakistani citizens.

"Their aim was apparently to cause a series of explosions in crowded places," Chand told AFP. Police said they seized two kilograms (4.4 pounds) of plastic explosive from the men when they made the arrest and later uncovered a further six kilograms (6.6 pounds) at their hideout, as well as detonators and hand grenades. Indian police have been put on high alert following Tuesday's terrorist attacks on the World Trade centre in New York and the Pentagon.

An armed Muslim insurgency in Indian-administered Kashmir has claimed at least 35,000 lives since 1989.

India accuses Pakistan of sponsoring cross-border terrorism in Kashmir and its restive northeastern region. Islamabad denies the charge.

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