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Pakistan Hunts 'Suspicious Foreigners'
Thursday, May 9, 2002
(10:43 GMT) (11:43 UK)
By Zaffar Abbas
BBC correspondent

The government has appealed to the public for help.
Image Credit: l'Agence France-Presse (AFP).

Since the latest suicide bombing in Karachi, authorities have started to work on the theory that some al-Qaeda members may be trying to regroup in Pakistan.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- BBC
Pakistani security agencies have stepped up efforts to hunt down the perpetrators of Wednesday's bomb explosion in Karachi and other incidents of terrorism.

The Interior Ministry has placed an advertisement in leading Pakistani newspapers, asking the general public to keep an eye out for suspicious foreign nationals.

Police are looking for possible links to al-Qaeda.
Image Credit: The Associated Press.

The advertisement gives the number of an army-managed telephone hotline for people to call with any information.

Although no firm leads have emerged, Pakistani security agencies indicated for the first time that an international terrorist organisation or its Pakistani counterpart may have been involved in the incident.

* Foreign involvement
* FBI help
(More: BBC Online News Source)
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