NOWSHERA, Oct 15: The Crime Investigation Department picked up four Afghan nationals from the Jalozai refugee camp on Tuesday on suspicions of links with Al Qaeda, police officials said.

Witnesses said that a team, comprising CID police, four FBI officials and other intelligence agencies, conducted a raid at the Jalozai refugee camp. The suspects did not offer any resistance.

The security agencies, backed by contingents of the Frontier Constabulary and armed personnel carriers, laid siege to some houses in the camp in the wee hours and arrested four Afghan nationals. They have been identified as Abdul Ghafar, son of Abdul Qahar, principal of a religious seminary, Akhtar Mohammed son of Haji Faiz Mohammad, Syed Abdur Rehman and Mohammed Idrees. The arrested suspects were later handed over to intelligence agencies’ personnel.

The CID assistant inspector general, Abdul Majeed Marwat, told reporters that the raiding party also seized CDs and passports of Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Arab countries.

The official said that the arrests may provide a clue to track down the terrorists involved in the attack on a church in Taxila.