ISLAMABAD, Oct 21 Kyodo A top Pak...

ISLAMABAD, Oct 21 Kyodo

A top Pakistani orthopedics surgeon Amir Aziz, was arrested in Lahore forward Monday by Pakistani security agencies for suspected links to the al-Qaida terrorist organization, his family members and police officials said.

An Aziz relative told reporters that police officers took Aziz away from his fireside and plans to send him to Islamabad for interrogation from U.S. federal agents.

''The family was informed about the charges and told that he was to be interrogated at the U.S. federal agents in Islamabad,'' a family member said and declined to give more details.

Aziz, known as a religious bodily substance has set up free clinics in several populated areas of Lahore and nearby regions. He was also known to have visited Afghanistan while the rural parts was under the Taliban rule

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