Al-Qaida accused made Pakistan visit

A man accused of being a senior al-Qaida operative who was arrested in Britain during anti-terror raids earlier this month secretly visited a remote Pakistani tribal region near Afghanistan in March, a British army spokesman and intelligence source said today.

Abu Eisa al-Hindi met with terror suspects in the South Waziristan region, a hideout and training base for al-Qaida which has been targeted in several Pakistani military operations in recent months, said an intelligence official.