Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad, the federal minister for information has denied reports that Pakistani security forces have arrested a key Al-Qaeda leader. It was believed that the arrested Al-Qaeda member was an important figure in Osama Bin Laden’s organization’s European wing. Talking to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Sheikh Rashid said that no key figure of Al-Qaeda has been arrested. He said that media reports in this regard were based on rumours. According to foreign news agencies, a senior Pakistan government official had said that authorities were trying to find out whether or not one of those arrested from Quetta two days earlier was Mustafa Satmaria Nasar. Mustafa Nasar has been accused of the Madrid blasts in 2004. The United States announced a $5 million reward on any information leading to the arrest of Mustafa Nasar alias Abu Musab Al Suri last year.