Pak forces net 6 terror suspects
AFP, Peshawar
Pakistani security agencies have arrested six suspected al-Qaeda-linked foreigners in a swoop on their hideout near the Afghan border, officials said Thursday. The men, believed to be Afghans and Central Asians, were seized on Wednesday in an upscale neighbourhood of Peshawar, a major northwestern frontier town, following a tip-off by intelligence sources. It is the latest round-up in key US ally Pakistan's crackdown on suspects linked to the network of Osama bin Laden, who has eluded an major manhunt since the fall of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in late 2001. The authorities seized two handgrenades, a pistol, computer disks and militant literature, an interior ministry official told AFP.
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