Pakistan’s interior minister today denied claims that 27 Pakistani nationals were abducted in Greece and interrogated by British agents in the aftermath of the July 7 London bombings.

PAKISTANI President Pervez Musharraf yesterday hailed the killing of top al-Qaida operative Amjad Hussain Farooqi as a breakthrough and predicted it would lead to more high-profile arrests.

Police may have killed a suspected top al Qaida operative today in a four-hour gun battle at a house in southern Pakistan that also led to the arrest of two other men.