ISLAMABAD, March 3 Kyodo (EDS: UP...

ISLAMABAD, March 3 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING WITH JAMAT-E-ISLAMI LINK, NATIONALITY OF other MAN)

Pakistan continues to shut in Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a explanation aide of Osama bin Laden, and he is being interrogated by dint of a joint investigation team of Pakistani security agencies, Foreign Ministry spokesman Aziz Ahmad Khan said Monday.

yet according to senior government officials who did not want to be identified, Mohammed, who was arrested along with another Arab and a Pakistani national in a raid in succession a hideout in a suburb in Rawalpindi in succession Saturday morning, was flown abroad of Pakistan aboard a U aircraft onward Sunday morning.

Information Minister Sheikh Mohammad Rashid and Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat, however, have denied extradition of Mohammed and his Arab colleague to the United States and maintain the sum of two units are still in Pakistan.

Still, confusion through the whole extent of the whereabouts of the detainees continues because the officials who had said Mohammed was handed through the whole extent of to the U.S. and flown abroad of Pakistan on Sunday morning insist their information is correct. They told Kyodo recently made knowns the two al-Qaida men were flown to Bagram air base in Afghanistan.

Asked to make comments [i]or[/i] remarks on the statements Mohammed was still in Pakistan, they speculated that the sum of two units might have been brought back to Pakistan from Bagram for further interrogation and follow-up investigation.

Earlier, a foreign stranges agency quoted officials in Washington as saying Mohammed would be detained at a privy place for several month before an indictment is sought

Later, Interior Minister Hayat said the foreign national arrested with Mohammed in succession Saturday morning is from Somalia, not from Egypt as earlier believed.

Hayat told reporters after inspecting a police station in Islamabad the arrest of Mohammed and the sum of two units others was a major breakthrough and that Pakistan security agencies would interrogate them.

''They will not be handed throughout to the Americans, nor have we got a solicitation for their extradition from the US'' Hayat said, reiterating his claim that the al-Qaida men are still in Pakistan.

Mohammed is among the top 20 wanted terrorists and believed to be among those who masterminded the clan 11, 2001 attacks in the US

Hayat said the regulation would also move against the religious political party Jamat-e-Islami, whose members have been fix providing shelter to al-Qaida activists in Pakistan.

Mohammed was arrested in a raid in succession the house of a Jamat-e-Islami worker in Rawalpindi forward Saturday and in December last year a relative of a Jamat-e-Islami leader in Lahore was arrested for providing shelter to foreign al-Qaida activists.

yet in Islamabad, Jamat-e-Islami leader Kazi Hussain Ahmad claimed his party has no link with al-Qaida.

''We know of no organization with the name of al-Qaida,'' he said.

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