When Hasib Hussain, the youngest, visited Karachi in June last year, he tried to join a madrassa, intelligence sources told Pakistani reporters. That was five months before Mohammad Sidique Khan and Shahzad Tanweer visited, when Tanweer is believed to have visited at least two madrassas.Although the name of the Karachi madrassa has not been confirmed, there are reports that vit is a seminary in the Buffer Zone quarter of the city, founded by Mufti Mohammed Jamil The madrassa's staff deny any connection to Hussain. It belongs to the same school of Islamic thought as Karachi's renowned Binori Town madrassa, which has overt links to the Taliban.The hotels where the bombers stayed in Karachi have been identified, but one is an area of the city centre that is not considered safe for Westerners. Visitors are advised to keep as low a profile as possible, and avoid certain areas altogether. Last night Egyptian officials said a scientist wanted for questioning over the London bombings had no links to the attacks nor to al-Qa'ida. Magdy el-Nashar, who studied at Leeds University, had been linked to a flat in the city that is being searched by police.
However, an Egyptian Government spokesman said it was "clear" he had no connection to the attacks.. Pakistani authorities say they are holding seven Islamic militants possibly linked to the London bombings. It also appears that one of the London suicide bombers may have tried to enrol at a madrassa in Karachi last year. The seven were rounded up as the Pakistani investigation in the bombings focused on Lahore, where one bomber spent time at a religious school. Police in Pakistan have detained an "important man" with " direct links" to the London bombings, it emerged today.
A senior intelligence official in the eastern city of Lahore confirmed that the man was in custody, but refused to disclose his name, or elaborate on his alleged links to the July 7 attacks.
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It came after UK reports that armed police in Pakistan had seized a major al-Qa'ida figure with suspected close links to the bombers. The Pakistani authorities were already holding at least seven people suspected of links to the four London suicide bombers - three of whom visited the country in the months before the atrocity. Shehzad Tanweer, 22, Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, and Hasib Hussain, 18, all travelled to Karachi in southern Pakistan last year. Intelligence officials there are now trying to determine whether they received training or other assistance from extremist groups. It has already been claimed that Tanweer met a leader of the outlawed radical group Jaish-e-Muhammad, which is said to have links to al Qaida, while an al-Qa'ida aide has reportedly said he recognises Khan from a "terror summit" held in the tribal areas of Pakistan last year.