Pakistan Nabs 5th Mumbai Massacre Suspect

Pakistan's top civilian security official says authorities have arrested a fifth suspect in last year's deadly siege of Mumbai.

Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik says Shahid Jamil Riaz was arrested in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi.

Riaz is alleged to have maintained financial accounts and helped plan the November attack, which killed 164 people in India's commercial capital.

Malik further said Monday that Pakistan needs more information from India to aid its investigation.

He says five of nine suspects are in custody. He did not say when Riaz was picked up.

India blames a banned Pakistani militant group, Lashkar-e-Taiba, for the siege.

In February, investigators charged the lone surviving gunman from the attacks with 12 crimes, including murder and waging war against India.

Meanwhile, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday signed a regulation that puts a northwest valley under Islamic law to achieve peace with Taliban militants who have brutalized the area.

The provincial government in northwestern Pakistan agreed in February to impose Islamic law in the Swat Valley and surrounding areas in exchange for a cease-fire with the local Taliban.

Western and Pakistani critics say the agreement represents a dangerous surrender to extremists behind a campaign of terrorism in the Swat Valley and more broadly across the border region with Afghanistan.