FAISALABAD, March 4: Police arrested on Sunday night the wife of Amjad Hussain Farooqi who is allegedly involved in the kidnapping-cum-murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl.

A police source told Dawn, a special team raided the house of in-laws of Amjad Farooqi in a village of Samundri tehsil. After failing to find Amjad, it arrested his wife and handed her over to an investigation team.

The police also minutely searched a number of houses of the village in search of Amjad Farooqui and his accomplices.

Villagers told the police they had not seen Amjad during the last couple of years.

Meanwhile, law enforcement agencies have been directed by the government to keep a vigil over the activities of people having links with the Jaish-i-Muhammad, a banned militant body, so that arrests of suspects in the kidnapping -cum-murder of Daniel Pearl case could be made.