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<b>Britain investigates links to Pakistan</b> <!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->House of Lords member Nasir Ahmed said a member of the Muslim community told him that <b>some of the people detained in the alleged plot went to Pakistan to assist with relief efforts after an earthquake killed nearly 80,000 people last year.</b>

"It may be that out of 22, there may be a number of them who have met someone from extremist groups in Pakistan or        Kashmir," Ahmed said. <b>"Some may have met them without knowing that they were meeting (extremists) because they were helping out in the aftermath of the earthquake."</b>

The New York Times reported that <b>money raised for victims of the earthquake was channeled to the plotters through the Pakistani-based charity Jamaat al-Dawat — a charge the charity denied. </b>

The charity is not registered in Britain, but laws do not prevent British citizens from donating to or collecting for it.

An additional 17 people were detained in Pakistan, including Rashid Rauf, a British national named by Pakistani intelligence as one of the key suspects. Rauf was picked up along the Pakistan-        Afghanistan border and is believed to have connections to a senior al-Qaida leader in Afghanistan.
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