PESHAWAR, March 31: Four foreigners were arrested here late on Wednesday night for their alleged links with Al Qaeda, well-placed sources said on Thursday. The arrests were made when an intelligence agency team, with the help of the crime investigation department, raided the house of one Abdul Aziz in the Azamabad area of Pawaki. Mr Aziz belongs to Afghanistan’s Kunduz province.

Those arrested are Abdul Aziz; Mustafa, Turk; Sulaiman, Spaniard; and Tulan, Russian Muslim. Sources said that the intelligence personnel seized passports of the suspects, two computers, a PCO phone set, a plastic coating machine and a cellular phone. The sources said that the foreigners were arrested on the charge of having links with Al Qaeda.