(6 Jul 2002)
FILE - Karachi
1. Various of Karachi city
Karachi - 1 July 2002
2. Various of four suspects of religious group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
Karachi -1 July 2002
3. Various of newspaper stalls
Karachi - 1 July 2002
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Vox Pop:
"They are terrorists because America says, and what America says we don't believe it. What the Koran says we believe in - that the Koran says they are not terrorists they are fighting in the way of Allah and the true Muslim can't accept that they are terrorists."
Karachi - 30 June 2002
5. Advertisement in state newspaper
Karachi - 3 July 2002
6. Various of site of encounter between suspected al-Qaida guerillas and Pakistani soldiers
7. SOUNDBITE (Pashtu) Witness:
"Around nine o'clock I heard the voice of firing I was on the top of the mountain I saw dead bodies of six people laying on the road. No one was allowed to go closer, later on the police took the bodies somewhere."
Kohat - 5 July 2002
8. Set-up shots of Qureshi
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Major General Rashid Qureshi, Army Spokesman:
"There is a foreign threat, there is an al-Qaida threat and there is an internal extremist related threat."
10. Cutaway
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Major General Rashid Qureshi, Army Spokesman:
"No amount of assistance is enough and for Pakistan which is a developing country it needs much more so although we have some equipment for surveillance which could be aerial surveillance or ground surveillance, we need much more."
12. Moulana Fazalur Rehman, Jamiat-e-Ulma-e-Islam
13. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu), Moulana Fazalur Rehman, Chief of Jamiat-e-Ulma-e-Islam:
"When in Pakistan there will be activities like that they (American or FBI agents) are entering in our cities, raiding houses and villages, in this case there will be clash between the Pakistan Army and the people, which will destabilize Pakistan."
Karachi - 3 July 2002
14. Various of site of encounter between suspected al-Qaida guerillas and Pakistani soldiers
STORYLINE:
Pakistan has made a public appeal for help in finding Osama bin Laden, his top aide and 16 other al-Qaida members.
But authorities did not make clear whether they believed bin Laden or the others- who may have escaped the US-led bombing campaign in Afghanistan- were currently in Pakistan.
Pakistani police are also waging a crackdown on violent extremist groups nationwide.
On Monday, Karachi Police Inspector General Syed Kamal Shah said his men arrested five militants including Akram Lahori, the leader of the banned Sunni Muslim extremist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, accused of having a hand in killing 70 people - mostly minority Shiite Muslims - in recent years.
This week the government used the local media to urge people with information about terrorists to contact police.
Newspaper statements featured photographs of Bin Laden, his chief deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri and others.
The statements also included Arabic quotes from the Koran, denouncing terrorism.
The crackdown has yielded results in the past few weeks.
On Wednesday four al-Qaida suspects and three officials died in a gunbattle at a security checkpoint in eastern Pakistan.
Afterward, authorities found explosives in the suspects' van and said they may have been planning a terror attack.
The gunbattle occurred as Pakistani troops searched for dozens of al-Qaida suspects who escaped a gunfight last week with Pakistani soldiers in a remote village in the country's tribal belt on the Afghan border.
A local official said the al-Qaida suspects were believed to be Uzbeks.
Since then Pakistani troops have arrested 16 suspected al-Qaida fugitives.
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