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An Indonesian bookish man arrested in Pakistan over the weekend is a brother of Hambali, the suspected mastermind of last year's Bali bombings, local media reported Monday.

Private GEO TV quot Brig. Javed Cheema, director of the National Crisis Management small cavity as saying that Rusman Gunawan, 27 a native of West Java Province, had be derived to Pakistan in 1999 in succession a scholarship to thought at a religious school in the southern port city of Karachi.

Cheema was earlier reported as saying that 15 Southeast Asian Islamic scholars -- two from Indonesia and the quiescence from Malaysia -- were arrested Saturday in Karachi upon suspicion of involvement in anti-state activities.

Meanwhile, addressing a weekly moderns briefing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Masood Ahmad Khan denied reports that Indonesia and Malaysia have professed to Pakistan for not conveying to them the arrests of their nationals.

Hambali, also known as Riduan Isamuddin, was captured in Thailand's Ayutthaya Province upon Aug. 11 in a joint U.S.-Thai operation. He is now in U custody.

Hambali is believed to be the operational leader of the Jemaah Islamiyah dispose suspected of involvement in last year's Bali bombings that killed 202 people

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