NAWABSHAH, Oct 13 Nawabshah police have arrested a foreigner from the city premises on Tuesday. He had expired registration documents, sources said.

The A-section police raided at a hotel in Chakra Bazaar and arrested a suspect, who was later identified as Ali Abdullah having Somalian passport and registration papers expired in July 2008 with an address of sector G-10/1 Islamabad.

SHO A-section police, Rukhsana Leghari told Dawn that during initial investigation, he told police that he was here to meet her sisters Fatima and Jamila studying MBBS at Peoples Medical College. She further said that when Fatima and Jamila were contacted and enquired, they said that he was not their brother. However, they knew him from Somalia and he had come to Nawabshah for religious preaching.

The SHO said that the suspect had not registered himself at any madressah or markaz. He also lived in the hostel of Quaid-e-Awam university of Engineering, Science and Technology Nawabshah.

She said that when she further enquired from some Palestinian students of the university where he resided for a few days, she was informed that they kept him only because he was a foreigner. She said that the person was being interrogated and a case would also be registered against him under Foreign Act.