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ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistan Wednesday announced rewards totalling 1.1 million dollars for information on six wanted terror suspects including Al-Qaeda's Libyan planner Abu Faraj Farj, described by Pakistani intelligence as the new number three in Osama bin Laden's network. The government placed photos of the six on the front pages of major newspapers, offering rewards of 20 million rupees (345,000 dollars) each for Faraj and Pakistani militant Amjad Hussain Farooqi. Bounties of 10 million to five million rupees (172,000 to 86,000 dollars) each were offered for four other Pakistani suspects. All six are Al-Qaeda suspects believed to have played a...

A Libyan named as the "current top operational chief" of the al-Qa'eda terrorist network is at the centre of a major manhunt in Pakistan.Abu Faraj Farj, who reportedly once worked as a personal assistant to Osama bin Laden, is also wanted for his alleged part in two assassination attempts against Pakistan's president last December. He also commands a network of overseas al-Qa'eda "sleeper cells" that are waiting to strike in the West, anonymous Pakistani intelligence officials claimed in Islamabad yesterday. "Farj was a personal assistant of bin Laden and our information is that he is the current top operational chief...