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Cap here are more good news:
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=85240&Sn=WORL&IssueID=27097

Two Al Qaeda suspects held

PESHAWAR: Pakistani intelligence agents have arrested two men on suspicion of links with the Al Qaeda terror network, intelligence officials said yesterday.

The men were arrested in the northwestern city of Chitral near the Afghan border, officials said.

They gave the men's names as Abdur Rahman alias Abu Obaida, and Suleman Tahir. Rahman was described as an Arab, but his nationality wasn't given. The other suspect is a Pakistani.

The intelligence officials said the suspects were being questioned in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province.

Meanwhile, Pakistani forces continued to search houses in a remote tribal area near the Afghan border for foreign fighters as the latest militant attack left seven police officers injured, officials said.

The predawn rocket and grenade attack was in the town of Dera Ismail Khan, which borders the tribal district of South Waziristan, scene of an ongoing military campaign to capture of kill suspected foreign Al Qaeda fighters.

One of the injured policemen was in serious condition in the hospital, the town's deputy inspector general of police Habibur Rehman said.

"We believe the attack was in retaliation for the operation in neighbouring South Waziristan tribal belt," he said.

Pakistani troops along with tribal forces meanwhile conducted a house to house search in the Shakai valley near South Waziristan's main town Wana for the fourth day but found neither any fugitives nor weapons, officials said. The search operation followed a massive air and ground offensive in the valley earlier this month.

Pakistan's military launched a five-day operation in the mountainous Shakai valley, 25km northeast of Wana to destroy several Al Qaeda hideouts.

The operation was in response to an attack by militants on a military post on June 9 which left 14 security personnel dead.

Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat has said 65 militants were killed in the Shakai operation while the military had put their toll at 18 soldiers. Some three civilians were also killed.

“The men were arrested in the northwestern city of Chitral near the Afghan border, officials said.”

Since both men are reportedly al-Qa'ida suspects, this is an interesting and potentially important factoid.

On the map below locate the city of Chitral slightly south of the center of the map. Note the panhandle of land to the north. That is the infamous Wakhan Corridor of north--eastern Afghanistan. Note too, the heights of the mountains in the area (given in meters). Even the passes are higher than the tallest mountain in the continental U.S. The Wakhan corridor is notorious both for it geography, topography and climate, as well as being as being a hold-out for the most desperate of fighters.

The last map, below, will orient you to where the above map fits in on a more international basis. The Wakhan corridor can be seen in the north-eastern portion of Afghanistan.

--Boot Hill

Update to the recent arrests Adam posted....

Found this in a Chitral newspaper..

CHITRAL,26 June 04: An Arab person who gave his name as Abdur Rahman and his Pakistani companion belonging to Punjab,who were arrested a couple of days back from Bumboret for unauthrised entry into Pakistan and alleged malicious intentions have been flown out of Chitral on a special plane. Security agencies were however tight lipped about the occurrence.

Boot or jeffers is there a border crossing into Pakistan named.....Bumboret?