ISLAMABAD, Sept 24: The law-enforcing agencies arrested two alleged members of a banned militant organization in Rawalpindi on Saturday night for links with Al Qaeda, sources told this correspondent.

The sources said that the arrests were made during a raid by the Special Investigation Group of the Federal Investigation Agency in Sadiqabad.

However, government officials, when contacted, neither confirmed nor denied the arrest.

Federal Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Sherpao declined to confirm the report.

Federal Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said, “I have heard about the arrest of two persons but could not confirm it because no department concerned has confirmed the arrests.”

The names of those arrested could not be ascertained till the filling of this report by midnight.

“Both the suspects are said to be active members of a banned militant outfit,” the sources said, adding that one of them carried big head money. They had been shifted to an undisclosed location, the sources said.