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| June 20, 2005 | Monday | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 12, 1426 |
Pakistani held in Mexico for arms sale
MEXICO CITY, June 19: Mexican police near the US border arrested a Pakistani wanted in the United States for trafficking anti-aircraft missiles, according to the attorney-general’s office.
It said Arif Ali Durrani, 55, who was in Mexico illegally, was detained as he left a restaurant in the Playas de Rosarito beach town in Baja California state, south of the US state of California.
It said in a statement the arrest “was carried out thanks to an intelligence investigation and the exchange of information with the US government”.
Durrani was taken to Mexico City by immigration authorities, the statement said.—Reuters
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