QUETTA, Nov 26: The law enforcement agencies on Tuesday took two persons into custody here from a house in satellite town for their alleged links with Al Qaeda.

The two suspects arrested by the agencies include a Sudanese national, Mohammad Talha, and a Pakistani, Qari Muhibur Rehman.

According to Rehman’s family, around three dozen members of a secret agency cordoned off the area and entered his house by scaling the walls, and others took positions on rooftops.

“Armed men in commando uniform barged into our house between the night of Monday and Tuesday at around 2.30am and took my brother and our Sudanese guest Talha with them,” Bibi Saleha the elder sister of Qari Rehman said.

She said that before entering the house they cut off power supply and telephone connection.

She added that some foreigners were also present on the occasion.

About the presence of Sudanese national Mohammad Talha in their house, she said that two weeks back a local leader of Lashkar-i-Taiba, Qasim, who runs a Madressah in Quetta, brought Mohammad Talha and his wife with him requesting for shelter because he said they were ill.

She said that her mother accepted them on humanitarian ground when Qasim said that he had brought them from Peshawar and would take them back in few days.

“My brother Muhibur Rehman has nothing to do with Al Qaeda or any other organization,” Bibi Saleha said adding that he was an exporter of rice in Quetta.