July 10, 2005	Sunday	Jumadi-us-Sani 2, 1426

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KHAAR (Bajaur Agency), July 9: Fifteen Afghans suspected of involvement in terror acts have been taken to Peshawar by a federal intelligence agency for further interrogation, sources told Dawn on Saturday. The suspects were arrested on Tuesday night along with another ten Afghans during a raid conducted by the Bajaur Scouts and Levy Force on a refugee camp.

The detained men have been charged with involvement in terrorism and other anti-state activities.

Sources said the Afghan suspects had confessed that there were involved in acts of terrorism after receiving payment from some tribesmen.

An official of the political administration in Bajaur Agency told this correspondent that the joint interrogation team of different security agencies had carried out the interrogation.

Meanwhile, the local Khasadar Force has launched a manhunt for Qari Ziaur Rehman, a key terror suspect who fled the Afghan refuge camp during Tuesday night’s raid.

Sources told Dawn that although Mr Rehman had obtained a computerised national identity card security agencies had been able to get their hands on the card and some other important documents belonging to him. They had also seized a satellite telephone and a firearm during the raid.

The political authorities have issued arrest warrants of several elders of Mamond tribe in Bajaur Agency on charges of helping Mr Rehman obtain a Pakistani national identity card.

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