NEW DELHI (AFP) - Pakistani militants intended to strike two elite boarding schools and a New Delhi military academy, Indian newspapers reported Thursday, citing officials and suspects arrested in the United States.

Court papers filed in Chicago said the two detained men -- allegedly members of the banned Pakistani Islamist group Lashkar-e-Taiba -- believed the National Defence College was on the group's target list, the Times of India reported.

The LeT has been widely blamed for the militant attacks on Mumbai nearly one year ago in which 166 people were killed.

The men, David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, twice mentioned the prestigious college -- where many top officers and civil servants are trained -- in a conversation recorded in September, the Times said.

The Mail Today newspaper also quoted official sources as saying two well-known boarding schools were considered as possible targets by the LeT to follow up on its strikes on Mumbai.