SUKKUR/NAWABSHAH, Sept 27: A strong contingent of law- enforcement personnel arrested two brothers, said to be active members of the banned Jaish-i-Muhammad Organisation, after a raid on their house in a residential area of Sukkur on Monday morning.

The arrests were made a day after security forces claimed to have killed Amjad Farooqi in an encounter in Nawabshah. The raid in Sukkur's Ansari Colony was conducted on information provided by the people arrested during the Nawabshah operation.

The two brothers were identified as Khaled Saleem Ansari and Sajid Saleem, who were detained when police entered their house after cordoning off the residential colony.

The brothers were blindfolded and taken away while security personnel raided places in several other localities for a third brother, Shahid Saleem, a postal clerk, who was not in the house at the time of the raid.

Shahid surrendered to police in the evening, official sources said. During the early morning raid, the Ansari house was searched twice, once for about one hour during which the arrests were made and again for about half an hour. Police claimed to have found in the house some literature which indicated the brothers' affiliation with Jaish-i-Mohammad.

However, two other Ansari brothers, Abid and Muqeem, denied the allegation that their brothers belonged to the banned organisation. And a women of the Ansari family denied that any literature had been found in the house and alleged that about Rs80,000 which belonged to a group of people contributing for a 'chit fund' and some ornaments were missing from the house.

Meanwhile, the Ghulam Hyder Shah Colony in Nawabshah, where Amjad Farooqi had been killed, was vacated by security forces on Monday afternoon. Of the seven people arrested during the Sunday operation, two were identified on Monday as Abdul Rehman and Yaqoob Farooqi, close friends of Amjad.