Updated Tuesday, December 18, 2007 0:00 am TWN, Reuters

Pakistani police hunt British bomb suspect

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistani authorities have detained two relatives of a Pakistani-British man suspected of involvement in an al-Qaida plot to blow up U.S.-bound airliners, after he escaped from police custody, the man’s lawyer said. Rashid Rauf, wanted by British authorities, escaped on Saturday from outside an Islamabad court where he had been brought under police security for an extradition proceeding.

“I spoke to his family and they said two of his uncles have been arrested and his house in Bahawalpur was raided,” Rauf’s lawyer, Hashmat Habib, told Reuters on Monday, referring to the eastern Pakistani city where Rauf lived.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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