Pakistan's government was ordered by a second judicial body Monday to release a doctor and his brother held for almost six months on accusations of harbouring top al-Qaeda figures. The Supreme Court directed the government to make "every effort" to release doctor Ahmed Javed Khawaja and his brother Naveed "in compliance with the orders" of a federal judicial review board, which ruled Saturday that a government detention order could not be extended. The Khawaja brothers have been in custody since a dramatic midnight raid on their home in Pakistan's second largest city Lahore in December. The interior ministry accused them of sheltering at least four al-Qaeda business and financial directors from north Africa and ordered their detention under the 1952 Pakistan Security Act.
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