WASHINGTON, March 31 (UPI) -- Pakistan has arrested six al-Qaida suspects in a hideout near the Afghan border, officials said Thursday.
The six Afghan and Central Asian men were seized Wednesday from an upscale neighborhood in Peshawar, a large Pakistani city close to the Afghan border, police said.
Briefing reporters, police officials in Peshawar said a tip-off led to the six men linked to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network.
Police also seized hand grenades, pistols, computer disks and militant literature from the hideout.
Since joining the U.S.-led war on terror three years ago, Pakistan has arrested more than 600 al-Qaida suspects and handed them over to U.S. authorities.
Pakistan also gave several key al-Qaida suspects to the United States including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the chief planner of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and Tanzanian Ahmad Khalfan Ghailani, who was on the FBI's most wanted list for the 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in East Africa.
