LAHORE, Pakistan, March 27, 2008 (AFP) - Pakistani security forces have arrested two suspected militants involved in recent terror attacks and recovered explosives and suicide jackets from them, police said Thursday.

Mohammad Shahzad and Nadeem Hussain, both in their early 20s, were seized in a raid on a house in the eastern city of Lahore overnight, local police chief Malik Iqbal told a news conference.

'Police recovered suicide jackets, explosives, detonators and ball bearings from the suspected terrorists,' he said.

'They belonged to an outlawed militant group Jihad-i-Islami,' he said, adding that their mastermind had been identified and he would also be arrested soon.

'We are confident the arrests will help in busting a big terrorist network in Pakistan,' he told reporters.

The militants were involved in a twin suicide attack at a naval college in Lahore on March 4 in which five people were killed, he said.

One bomber rammed a motorcycle into the gate of the college then the second drove another bike into the parking lot where he detonated explosives.

The group operating from the lawless tribal region of South Waziristan, bordering Afghanistan, is also believed to be behind another suicide attack in Lahore in which 26 people were killed earlier this month, Iqbal said.

Pakistan, combating an Islamist insurgency led by Al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters since President Pervez Musharraf joined the US-led 'war on terror' in 2001, has been hit by a wave of bomb blasts and suicide attacks.

Around 600 people have died since the start of this year mostly in suicide attacks and roadside bombings in Pakistan.