WASHINGTON (AP) -- Five young men who vanished from the Washington, D.C., area last month are believed to be held in Pakistan while authorities investigate possible links to extremists there.
The Pakistani Embassy in Washington says the investigation focuses on whether the U.S. citizens have links to extremist groups in Pakistan. The five men have been arrested but no formal charges have been filed.
The men were picked up in a raid on a house in Sarghoda in the eastern province of Punjab, a police officer said, adding that three of the men are of Pakistani descent, one is of Egyptian descent and the other is of Yemeni heritage.
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