Karachi: The federal government has formed a Special Investigation Group (SIG) to track down members of the Al Qaeda network in Pakistan and help extradite them to the US. The SIG, which would gradually be given the status of an investigation agency, will initially comprise 50 persons.
| Approximately half will probably be informants... |
The organizational structure of the group has not yet been finalized but a director will be responsible directly to the interior minister who would be its head. The training of the first batch of SIG was scheduled to start from July 15 in the United States. However, during the recent visit of President Pervez Musharraf it was agreed between the two governments that the FIB [FBI?] would impart training to SIG personnel in Pakistan where it already had a temporary office in the FIA Headquarters in Islamabad. Now the training would start in Islamabad in the first week of July. In the selection of the members of the SIG, their past experience of working with US authorities and their atttitude towards America’s policy of fighting against terrorism globally was given priority. 17 officers belonging to FIA Headquarters Islamabad, FIA Lahore, FIA Karachi and FIA Peshawar had been picked for training in the first batch.
| Somebody send Perv a few copies of The Untouchables... |
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