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Pak arrests 378 Al Qaeda militants,
hands them over to US

K J Varma in Islamabad

Pakistani authorities have caught 378 Al Qaeda militants, most of them from Yemen, in the last eight months and handed over more than 300 of them to US authorities for detention and interrogation.

The Al Qaeda militants captured included 87 Yemenis and seven French nationals. The rest were from Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Syria, Libya, Morocco and Chechnya, senior defence officials told daily Dawn.

The officials said the arrested Al Qaeda militants were taken to unknown destinations by the American authorities.

The arrests were made by local authorities in close co-operation with US security agencies, the officials said.

The highest ranking Al-Qaeda operative apprehended so far by Pakistani authorities is Abu Zubaydah, who was considered to be the right-hand man of terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden.

Zubaydah is now in US custody at an undisclosed place.

Reports from the Wana tribal agency, where 10 Pakistani soldiers were killed in the first major attack on them by Al Qaeda inside Pakistan said they were killed when they tried to search a house.

PTI

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