Pakistan offers bounties for infos on al-Qaeda
Pakistan yesterday announced rewards totalling 1.1 million dollars for information on six wanted terror suspects including Al-Qaeda's Libyan planner Abu Faraj Farj, described by Pakistani intelligence as the new number three in Osama bin Laden's network.
The government placed photos of the six on the front pages of major newspapers, offering rewards of around 345,000 dollars each for Faraj and Pakistani militant Amjad H}ssain Farooqi.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. Bounties of 172,000 to 86,000 dollars each were offered for four other Pakistani suspects.
All six are Al-Qaeda suspects believed to have played a role in two December attempts to assassinate President Pervez Musharraf.
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