British and Pakistani intelligence agencies are investigating another UK-based Muslim charity active in Pakistan for its alleged involvement in terror financing, local newspaper Daily Times reported on Monday.

Pakistan has arrested 15 people in southern Punjab province in connection with the alleged plot to blow up aircraft in the United Kingdom.

Investigators are already looking at one UK-based charity, called the Muslim Charity, that allegedly has sent large sums of money to three individuals in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, under the guise of quake relief but for the actual purpose of funding the alleged UK plane bombing plot, according to official sources.

The new charity, which has been under surveillance for several months, is also said to have provided funds to individuals in Quetta last year.

Sources said British investigators are trying to establish whether the charity has remitted the money through the formal banking system. Pakistani investigators believe the funds could have found their way here through the informal mode of payment, the sources said.

Official sources said Islamic charities based in the United Kingdom and the United States have used this method to remit funds mainly to individuals, not organizations or trusts, for several years.

Some of them had been doing so before the attacks of September 11, 2001 in the United States, and the October 8 earthquake in 2005 in Pakistan.

Some charities have set up offices in other countries. One of them has field offices in three "strategic" locations - Sudan, Bangladesh and Somalia.

Source: Xinhua