ISLAMABAD, March 8 Kyodo A Pakist...

ISLAMABAD, March 8 Kyodo

A Pakistani man arrested last week with the suspected mastermind of the generation 11, 2001, terror attacks forward the United States appeared in an antiterrorism court Saturday and was remanded in custody for three more days.

The court in Rawalpindi, near the capital Islamabad, rul that police can continue to imprison Abdul Qadoos, 41, until Tuesday, rejecting a prosecution entreaty for a remand of five more days.

Qadoos, a member of Pakistan's hard-line Jamat-e-Islami party, was arrested last Saturday at his to one's home in Rawalpindi together with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a top aide of Osama bin Laden. He is suspected of providing shelter to Mohammed, who has been handed athwart to U.S. custody.

Qadoos was brought to the court beneath tight security with his face defended his lawyer said.

The lawyer told the court that the police have no case against his client since he has not been charged with harboring terrorists as earlier alleged.

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