Terror suspects 'appear to be of Pakistani origin'

French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said today that the suspects in an alleged terror plot to blow up several planes flying from Britain to the United States “appear to be of Pakistani origin".

Speaking after an urgent security meeting with Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, Sarkozy said Paris had been in close contact with British authorities, but he did not give a precise source for the information on the suspects.