




250 rounded up for interrogation
Islamabad: Pakistan police have rounded up about 250 hardened criminals and other suspects after conducting a massive search to find clues to the assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto in Rawalpindi last week. Special police teams took the people into custody during search operations. Police were releasing the suspects after verifying their antecedents and questioning them for information about the killing, the Daily Times reported. Police focused on criminals who were in their records. Hotels, bus stands, railway stations, hospitals, markets and rented accommodation were searched by the special teams, officials said. Police had also been directed to keep an eye on anti-social elements and plainclothes policemen had been deployed at sensitive places.


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