ISLAMABAD:Pakistan's top law officer on Thursday disclosed for the first time that security agencies are holding at least 700 people indefinitely without trial in connection with the "war on terror".
Attorney General Irfan Qadir told the Supreme Court the suspects were arrested in the semi-autonomous northwestern tribal belt, where the military has been fighting Islamist militants for around a decade.
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