A Tanzanian al-Qaida suspect wanted by the United States for the 1998 bombings at US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania was giving “very valuable” information, Pakistan’s interior minister said today.

PAKISTAN has arrested Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian al-Qaida suspect wanted by the United States in the dual 1998 bombings at US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the interior minister said last night.

Pakistan has arrested a Tanzanian al-Qaida suspect wanted by the United States on suspicion of helping in the deadly 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the interior minister said in Islamabad early Friday.