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Pak. arrests suspected Al-Qaeda men

ISLAMABAD March 28. The Pakistani police have raided alleged hideouts of Al-Qaeda terrorists and detained around 30 suspects, senior intelligence sources said today.

They said the arrests came amid a series of overnight raids in Faisalabad, Punjab province, in which at least one person was killed and four were injured in gunfights. The raids followed a tip-off that five Al-Qaeda members who escaped from Pakistani custody in December were hiding in Faisalabad.

``The first raid was at a house in Faisal Chowk, in Nishatabad area where the police met strong resistence. Around a dozen people, mostly Afghans, were arrested from the house after a heavy shootout in which one person was killed,'' the officer said.

The Faisalabad police chief, Tassadaq Hussain, and the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Talat Mahmood, had said earlier that the raids were related to a terrorist attack on a church in Islamabad. But a senior official said the raids were part of the Government's crackdown on terrorists. — AFP

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