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Four Qaeda suspects held from Charsadda
 Four Al Qaeda suspects were arrested in Charsadda district early on Monday morning. Local residents and the district government helped point out the suspects to security forces, a security official and local nazim said on Tuesday. "Residents complained to me about the presence of suspected foreigners and we brought the issue to the notice of authorities concerned," Dosehra Union Council Nazim Nasrullah Khattak told Daily Times.Security forces arrested four foreigners who looked like Afghans and three women during the raid at 3:00am on Monday, he said, adding, "The local police was not involved in the operation. The army did it." The security official said four 'Egyptians' were arrested, but did not confirm the arrest of the three women. "Their names have not been ascertained yet, as the suspects are not talking," he added. Nasrullah said the foreigners had been staying in the area for the past two to three months. "I visited them several times to know who they were, but nobody came out to talk to me," he said. "They could not speak Pashto, but could speak broken Persian," the nazim said. "During the census of Afghan refugees, we visited the house, but they did not register themselves. One of the occupants identified himself as Abdullah Gul and said they were from Afghanistan," he added. This was the second such raid in Charsadda district in a week. In an earlier raid a Briton was arrested in similar fashion in the Shabqadar area. Posted by: Fred 2005-05-25 |
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