Islamabad: Pakistani security agencies have arrested four more al-Qaida suspects in two different raids in Karachi and Baluchistan, media reports said on May 4.

Abdul Khaliq Mohammed and Abi Abdullah, both Egyptian nationals, who were living in Pakistan for long time, were arrested from Khuda Ki Basti locality of the port city of Karachi, 'Geo TV' reported.

The security agencies recovered a laptop computer, three AK-47 assault rifles, two pistols, two satellite phones and other sensitive communication devices, and a quantity of explosives from their possession, the report said.

They were arrested on lead provided by a key al-Qaida operative Jawwad al-Bashar of Egypt, who was nabbed on May 3 night from South Western Baluchistan, along with Afghan national Farzand Shah.

Pakistan says that some 480 al-Qaida suspects have been arrested since the fall of Taleban regime in Afghanistan in November 2001. Majority of them have been handed over to the United States.

Waleed bin Attash, a suspect of the suicide attack on USS Cole in Yemen in 2000, was arrested in Karachi on April 29 and has been handed over to the US authorities.

Attash was arrested with three other key al-Qaida suspects – Khalid Muhammad Sheikh, Ramzi bin al- Shiba and Abu Zubaidah.

PTI