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Police found five hand grenades, four handguns, ammunition and maps of Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan, an intelligence officer told the Associated Press on the condition of anonymity.
There was no word on whether the suspects were engaged in an active plot.
Arrested were two Egyptian men, three Afghan men and two Arab women, the officer said.
Police did not identify them or say what rank they might hold in Osama bin Laden's terror organization.
“Our information is that these are al-Qaida people,” Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said.
Neighbors said 50 to 60 armed officers surrounded the Cassim Complex, a block of 160 apartments in the middle-class Gulistan-e-Jauhar neighborhood. There was no gunfire.
The arrests in this port city of 14 million people came a day after Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf vowed to crush terrorism in his first-ever speech to Parliament.
