巴基斯坦警方说，他们在巴基斯坦南部和东部发动突袭，逮捕了13名和基地组织或塔利班相关的激进分子。
警方星期一表示，在南部卡拉奇市抓获了7名携带自杀炸弹背心和炸药的武装分子。当局说，这些人属于被取缔的逊尼派激进组织“强戈维军”。
该组织涉嫌策划刺杀政府官员，并制造了去年在伊斯兰堡的万豪酒店炸弹袭击和2003年的什叶派清真寺炸弹袭击。
警方还表示，他们从嫌疑人身上搜查出约两公斤海洛因。世界上90%多的鸦片都产于领国阿富汗，鸦片是海洛因的主要成分。美国官员认为阿富汗的鸦片贸易帮助资助塔利班等激进组织。
同时，警方说在旁遮普省逮捕了6名怀疑是塔利班激进分子的人。高级警官安瓦尔说，这些激进嫌疑分子曾计划袭击外国目标和宗教场所。
Pakistani police say they have arrested 13 militants with links to al-Qaida or the Taliban during raids in southern and eastern Pakistan.
Police said Monday they seized seven men with suicide vests and explosives the southern city of Karachi. Authorities said the men belong to the banned al-Qaida-linked group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.
The Sunni extremist group has been suspected of plotting to assassinate government officials, as well as masterminding last year’s bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad and the bombing of a Shi’ite mosque in 2003.
Police also said they recovered for the first time about two kilograms of heroin from the suspects.
Neighboring Afghanistan produces more than 90 percent of the world’s opium, the main ingredient in heroin. U.S. officials believe the country’s opium trade helps to fund militant groups, such as the Taliban.
Meanwhile in Punjab province, police say they captured six suspected Taliban militants. Senior police officer Usman Anwar says the suspected militants had planned to attack foreign targets and places of worship.