QUETTA, Feb 14: Personnel of the Anti-Terrorism Force and FBI arrested an Egyptian Al Qaeda suspect in a raid on a home on the outskirts of the city, police said on Friday.

The 90-minute raid was mounted at 2:45am on Thursday.

“They arrested an Egyptian national...on suspicion of having links with Al Qaeda,” a senior police officer told AFP in Quetta.

The suspect was being interrogated at an unknown location, the official said.

Federal Bureau of Intelligence (FBI) of the US have been helping Pakistani security forces in sniffing out and capturing Al Qaeda fugitives from neighbouring Afghanistan since late 2001.

Around 440 suspects have been captured in Pakistan since the US-led military campaign against Al Qaeda and the Taliban, launched in October 2001.

Among them were two top-level Al Qaeda figures: Osama bin Laden’s key lieutenant Abu Zubaydah, arrested last March, and Ramzi bin Al Shibh, an alleged co-planner of the Sept 11, attacks on the US.