Islamabad: Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf' nephew was detained for two weeks by the US officials cracking down on the illegal immigrants, but was later released on bail.

Musharraf's nephew, Aamir Javed was detained on Feb 19 for visa violations and was released on March 7, according to a report in the 'Dawn' daily in Islamabad.

Javed, whose US visa expired in 1994 would now have to appear before immigration judge who could order him deported or allow to stay in the United States, it said.

The report said that Javed, resident of Memphis, Tennesse, had informed his family in Pakistan about his detention. "But so far nobody in the government in Islamabad contacted the Embassy to help him out," the newspaper quoted an official at the Pakistan Embassy in Washington as saying.

Javed was detained when he went to a local immigration office to register to abide by the directive of the US government to people from 25 mostly Muslim countries including Pakistan to be photographed and fingerprinted.

PTI