KOHAT, Dec 24: A strong contingent of armymen, led by Brig Haroon, head of the Special Services Group (SSG), NWFP chief of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), accompanied by Col Tariq and four majors, arrived here on Monday to finalize arrangements for an FBI team’s arrival which will interrogate the Al Qaeda leaders detained in the Kohat central prison.

The members of the FBI team will arrive from Peshawar and Islamabad on Tuesday morning and stay at the KDA Circuit House which has been cordoned off by army commandos.

The Pakistan army SSG chief Brig Haroon is already staying there with his men.

Also, the military security officials have dug bunkers inside the central prison to resist an attempt from terrorists from outside to get the detainees, who are on the most-wanted list of the US state department, released.

About half-a-dozen military check posts, manned by army commandos, have been build around the Circuit House and at all the outlets from Kohat - Rawalpindi, Peshawar, DIK, Afghanistan are under great vigilance. The commissionerate for Afghan refugees has given a 15 days notice to the refugees living in Kohat camp to leave Kohat.

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