KANDAHAR : Afghan official claim to have arrested eight foreigners last night in separate anti-terrorist operations from Nimroz Province .
Senior security officials of Nimroz Province say that they arrested eight foreigners last night in separate anti-terrorist operations. Giving details, Governor Nimroz Ghulam Dastgir Azad said that one Iraqi, two Kashmiris form Pakistan administered Kashmir and five Bangladeshis were among the detainees.
He disclose that the intelligence agencies has arrested them from Zaranj city. Mr. Azad said that the Iraqi and Kashmiris were without travel documents but Bangladeshis had them.
He suspected that the detainees had a link with Al-Qaeda. It may be noted that Al-Qaeda suspects had been arrested in Nimroz at the time when the security forces tightened noose around the terrorists in neighbouring Kandahar Province.
Governor Kandahar in a statement two days back had claimed to have arrested of nine terrorists planning to carry out suicide attacks in his Province. He said that two of them belong to the Punjab Province of Pakistan. |