Pakistan authorities arrested five more suspected members of al-Qaida network in the past 48 hours, including "valuable targets," a senior government official said Thursday. He said the arrests were made during raids in different parts of the country and that the detainees were being questioned in an effort to capture other al-Qaida members. "Our forces raided some places in the past two days and captured five terrorists, including foreigners, who are valuable targets," said the official, who did not want to be named. Pakistan's Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed confirmed the arrests, but refused to share any further details, according to a report of the Associated Press.
