AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat police claim to have busted a major terrorist module with the arrest on Tuesday of two more suspected terrorists having links with the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba and planning to carry out nationwide subversive activities at an opportune time.

While Firaq Ansari was picked up here, Kari Musiddul was arrested from a madrasa at Tarkeshwar near Surat, where both were living together earlier, the Ahmedabad crime branch Deputy Commissioner Manoj Shashidhar said.

He said the arrests followed the nabbing on Monday of Illyus Memon and Khalid, who revealed that about 20 youths from Gujarat had gone for terrorist training in Pakistan. Most of them returned after completing their training and fanned out to different parts of the country.

Mr. Shashidar did not rule out more arrests in the next few days. All the four arrested were believed to be members of the LeT "sleeper cell'' module.

According to the police, Illyus Memon was the second-in-command to Aslam Kashmiri, who was suspected to have been involved in the recent Mumbai train blasts. He escaped to Pakistan.

In Gujarat, Aslam had lived under the pseudonym Imran to build the Ahmedabad module with the help of Illyus and Khalid, who is his brother. Both Firaq and Kari were also suspected to have played an important role in the February bomb blast at the Ahmedabad railway station.

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Mr. Shashidhar said it was clear the terror network had undergone a virtual "corporatisation" for better performance. Its motivation, talent export, training, induction, capacity building and such methods matched the activities in any major corporate house. All major cities in the country where the crime branch police believed that the terror network had spread were alerted, he said.

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