ISLAMABAD, May 13: Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao said on Friday said that Al Qaeda leader Abu Faraj Al Libbi would be tried under the Anti-Terrorism Act. The minister told journalists after the graduation ceremony of the Federal Investigation Agency’s anti-trafficking unit at FIA headquarters that Al Libbi’s extradition had not been demanded by any country.

Mr Sherpao said Al Libbi was involved in many terrorism cases in the country, therefore, he would be tried under its laws. In reply to a question, he said: “As I am not directly involved in the interrogation process, I have no idea what Al Libbi has disclosed before the investigation team.”

He said disclosure of details of investigation in high-profile cases could help those wanted people escape about whom information had been gained. “I have never promised that I would give the details of the investigation to the press,” he said. Responding to a question, he said the investigation was being conducted by the country’s law-enforcement agencies. “No country has so far requested handing over of Al Libbi,” he said.

Answering a question about Pakistanis released by the United States authorities from Guantanamo Bay, he said they were being kept in Adiyala Jail and other prisons and they were being looked after properly. He said the government had conveyed its strong protest to the Washington over reported desecration of holy Quran by US security guards at Guantanamo Bay.