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Eight Al-Qaeda men held in Pak province

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Islamabad, March 1, IRNA - Pakistan`s law-enforcement agencies have 
arrested eight Al-Qaeda suspects in the last 48 hours in Northwest 
Frontier Province (NWFP). 
Daily Times reported in its Monday issue that six suspects, 
including three Algerian and three Afghan nationals were held from a 
refugee camp near Kohat district. Two others were also apprehended 
from the same district. 
These arrests were made during a search operation jointly by the 
police and the secret agencies. 
Meanwhile, the government has warned the locals of tribal belt, 
close to the Pak-Afghan border to surrender the terrorist elements, 
otherwise a fresh operation would be launched there. 
The political authorities in the area, controlled by the Federal 
Government, hurled this warning on Sunday till Monday, asking the 
tribesmen to purge their localities of suspects, The News daily said 
on Monday. 
In a related development, the newspaper added that the 300 elders 
of tribes demanded of the government to send the Afghan refugees back 
home. 
Reports in the world media and local newspaper have been 
indicating that remnants of Al-Qaeda and Taliban could still be hiding
close to the rugged Pak-Afghan border. Both countries share over 
2200-kilometer border. 
It is suspected after the fall of Taliban regime in 2002, scores 
of their supports and followers had moved into tribal areas to carry 
out their activities inside Pakistan and Afghanistan. 
There have been reports that in case, Pakistan failed to deliver, 
the United States forces could cross in to the area to crush the 
terrorists, local press said. 
MHA/TSH/216 
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