Pakistani security agencies have also detained a former army major thought to have links to two men arrested in Chicago on terrorism charges, an army spokesman said.
According to US court documents, the Chicago pair discussed a planned attack on a Danish newspaper with members of the banned Pakistan-based Islamist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which has been blamed for the Mumbai attack in which 166 people were killed.
Pakistan is under pressure from both India, which wants it to crack down on militants operating in disputed Kashmir, and from the US, which wants it to root out Taliban fighters to help it put down the insurgency in Afghanistan.
A lawyer for one of the seven men charged with taking part in the Mumbai attack said they had pleaded not guilty. They are allegedly linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba.
India has refused to resume peace talks with Pakistan and has sought to bring international pressure on Islamabad to act against militants operating from its soil, including Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Washington wants relations between the nuclear-armed neighbours to improve so that its crucial ally, Pakistan, can focus on fighting Taliban militants and helping in the war in Afghanistan.
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