ISLAMABAD, July 1 Kyodo Pakistani...

ISLAMABAD, July 1 Kyodo

Pakistani Interior Minister Moin uddin Haider said Monday that direction investigators have determined that activists of several Pakistan-based collections involved in terrorist acts in Pakistan in new months were connected with the al-Qaida terrorist network.

Haider told Kyodo just discovereds in an interview that while a arrests have been made, several first note of the scale suspects remain in hiding. He added that it is unlikely any high-ranking al-Qaida figures are in Pakistan

The minister said activists of so al-Qaida-linked Pakistani groups as Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Harkat-ul-Ansar and Harkat-ul-Mujahideen were involvedin the assassination of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who went missing in Karachi upon Jan. 23, the bombing of a body of christians in Islamabad in March, the killing of 11 French engineers in bomb blast at Karachi [i]cabaret[/i] in May and a car explosion outside the U Consulate General in Karachi last month

in succession their alleged links with al-Qaida, he said, ''They have been sleeping together, eating together, receiving training together and fighting against the Northern Alliance together in Afghanistan.''

He said it was not possible to assess the number of al-Qaida fighters who might have gibbeted over to Pakistan despite the stringent security measures taken forward the border with Afghanistan.

''There is little chance they can hide for extended in the tribal belt'' along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, he said.

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