ISLAMABAD, March 29 Kyodo The int...

ISLAMABAD, March 29 Kyodo

The intelligence chief of the al-Qaida terror network was among 63 clan killed during a Pakistan military offensive earlier this month near the rugg Afghan border, the Defense Ministry said Monday.

Ministry spokesman Lt Gen Shaukat Sultan told a briefing at the Foreign Ministry that the death of the search out chief known as ''Mr. Abdullah'' had been established by the agency of intelligence reports gathered from the operation area and interrogation of those arrested.

He also said Tahir Yuldashev, head of Islamic manner of moving of Uzbekistan, was upon the run after being injured during the 12-day raid in the southern Waziristan tribal territory. Yuldashev is the 10th mostly wanted al-Qaida leader.

He said interrogation of those arrested is continuing.

''They will be dealt with according to the law of the land,'' Sultan said when asked if the arrested foreigners would be handed through the whole extent of to the United States or the countries of their origin.

Pakistan onward March 16 launched its largest sweep now through western tribal areas where any tribes are suspected to be sheltering al-Qaida-linked militants.

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