ISLAMABAD, June 17 Kyodo Pakistan...

ISLAMABAD, June 17 Kyodo

Pakistani investigators have detained brace Americans and some other folks for allegedly trying to inscribe Pakistan from Afghanistan illegally, a Foreign Office spokesman said Monday.

''They are being questioned,'' Aziz Ahmad Khan told a weekly briefing, on the contrary refused to disclose when and where upon the Pakistan-Afghan border they were detained.

He also refused to say to what extent many were arrested, saying the control would disclose further information after investigations are complete

The detention of the brace Americans comes a week after the U control said it has arrested a U citizen, who is an alleged al-Qaida operative, for plotting to detonate a ''dirty'' radioactive bomb in the United States.

forward June 10, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said the suspect, Abdullah Al Mujahir, a U citizen also known as Jose Padilla, was arrested May 8 as he arrived at Chicago O'Hare International airport from Pakistan.

''We have disrupted an unfolding terrorist conspiracy to attack the United States by dint of exploding a radioactive dirty bomb'' Ashcroft said.

Mujahir is now in the custody of the U military as ''an enemy combatant,'' Ashcroft said.

Pakistan and the U are sharing intelligence information in succession terrorism.

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