10 bad guys, huh? That leaves about 75,000,000 to go...
Police arrested 10 people suspected of links to the Taliban and al-Qaida in two nighttime raids near the capital. The detainees, some of them Afghans, were arrested late Monday in Rawalpindi, where assassins tried to kill Pakistan's military leader Sunday with a bomb. But a government statement said the arrests were unrelated to that attack. The 10 were "involved in unlawful activities" and some weapons were seized. An Interior Ministry official said the raids were part of a campaign against the Taliban and al-Qaida and followed an intelligence tip-off. Pakistani intelligence agents were interrogating the detainees, he said.
"Mahmoud! Have you seen my red truncheon?"
"Oh, sorry, Ahmed. I was using it." |
Also Tuesday, police arrested a man who was found to be carrying explosives as he boarded a train at the Jehangira station, about 60 miles northwest of Islamabad. Police were conducting a routine search when they found two sticks of dynamite, two detonators and two fuses in the luggage of Ulfat Khan, 35, according to a railway police official.
"What's with the explosives, Ulfat?"
"I'm gonna open my own diamond mine." |
The train was bound for Karachi, which is Pakistan's commercial center and main port on the Arabian Sea.
"Take the last train to Karachi,
And I'll meet you at the station..." |
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