LAHORE – Security forces in the eastern Pakistan city of Lahore have arrested two more Al-Qaeda suspects, including a Myanmar national carrying “vital documents”, an official said on August 16.

“Both have been detained on charges of having links with Al-Qaeda,” an intelligence official said.

He said a man identified as Abu Hamza of Myanmar was captured in a raid on a house in Lahore on August 15.

He was carrying “vital documents,” 30 computer discs, three mobile phones with several SIM cards using different numbers, and more than US$10,000 in cash, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity and did not reveal the contents of the documents.

Agencies also arrested Pakistani Al-Qaeda suspect Mohammad Siddique, described as a “diehard” supporter of the banned militant outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad, which traditionally fights Indian rule in disputed Kashmir.

The pair “have been shifted to an unknown place for interrogation,” he added.

Pakistani security agencies have detained about 30 Al-Qaeda suspects since mid-July, including Pakistani communications expert Naeem Noor Khan and Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a suspect in the 1998 bombings of two American embassies in East Africa.

Their capture yielded a trove of information on Osama bin Laden’s terror network and led to the discovery of plots to launch terror attacks in Britain, Pakistan and the US.

Pakistani forces are hunting more Al-Qaeda operatives including alleged new operations chief Abu Faraj Farj, a Libyan man accused of masterminding two assassination attempts against President Pervez Musharraf in December.