QUETTA: Pakistani security forces yesterday arrested a Saudi national suspected of links to the Al Qaeda, police said. The suspect identified as Suleman Zakariya was intercepted when he arrived in Zhob district in southwest Pakistan from the neighbouring district of Waziristan.

He had Saudi and US currency with him, police said, without disclosing the amount.

"Intelligence agencies are interrogating him," they said.

Pakistan has arrested more than 700 suspects linked to Al Qaeda since the late 2001 ouster of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.