Hundreds of Foreigners Arrested As FBI Spreads Its Net in Pakistan

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Hundreds of Foreigners Arrested As FBI Spreads Its Net in Pakistan

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The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), with the help of the Pakistani authorities, is keeping under constant surveillance the conversations made through satellite mobile phone sets in Pakistan, and has arrested hundreds of foreigners on suspicion of their links with the Al-Qaeda or other such organizations.

According to the Dawn, a Karachi-based newspaper, the Pakistani authorities had directed the law enforcement agencies to extend all possible assistance to the FBI in tightening the noose around Al-Qaeda terrorists and the activists of the banned organizations providing shelter to Al-Qaeda members.

Quoting well-informed sources, the paper said that a number of foreigners, most of them belonging to Arab and African countries, had been picked up from several parts of the country, particularly in Sindh and the Punjab.

The sources said that more than 700 foreigners, mostly Arabs, had been taken into custody for having alleged links with the Al-Qaeda or the extremist organizations banned by the federal government.

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