 Police Saturday in crackdown on Islamic hardliners arrested three Al-Qaeda linked militants and recovered hate literature in Southwestern Baluchistan province, said a police official. The militants were arrested in Quetta, the provincial capital, senior city police officer (SP), Qazi Wahid, said. He said police recovered 35 books containing Al-Qaeda linked literature. He said they have been identified as Muhammad Akbar Baghlani, Fazl-e-Haq, and Syed Iqbal. | Their moms must be very proud. |
SP Qazi denied their Pakistani nationality but said forces are investigating them to determine their nationality.
| "Pakis? Don't be silly. They're....something else." |
However, an intelligence source told KUNA that the arrested are militants of some banned outlet. | 'Banned' being code for alive and well and cranking out boomers on schedule. |
The source declined to give further details. In a week long crackdown, launched on the directives of President Musharraf in the aftermath of London bombings, police and law-enforcement agencies have rounded up over 450 clerics, members of outlawed militant groups and students of religious seminaries. Hasan Waseem Afzal, Home Secretary of Punjab, at a news conference in Lahore said that around 105 men have been arrested in the province since the crackdown began. He said that 90 of them have been sent into police custody, adding that they would be tried under anti-terrorist act. He said those detained are members of Sipah-e-Sahaba, Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Jhangavi militant groups. |