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CHRONOLOGY-Major events in Pakistan's al Qaeda crackdown 04 May 2005 15:48:06 GMT Source: Reuters ISLAMABAD, May 4 (Reuters) - Pakistan, a key ally in the U.S.-led war on terror, said on Wednesday it had arrested Abu Faraj Farj al Liby, mastermind of assassination attempts against President Pervez Musharraf. Pakistan's Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed told reporters it was the most significant catch of an al Qaeda member after the arrests of Abu Zubaydah in 2002 and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in 2003 in the country. Pakistan has handed over more than 600 al Qaeda and other militant suspects to U.S. custody since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. Here are some of the major events in Pakistan's crackdown. MARCH, 2002 -- Saudi-born Palestinian Abu Zubaydah is arrested after a shootout in the central Pakistani city of Faisalabad. Zubaydah was operations director for al Qaeda and the first high-ranking member to be arrested. JULY, 2002 -- A court in southern Hyderabad sentences British-born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, also known as Sheikh Omar, to death for murdering Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl. Pearl disappeared in Karachi in January while investigating possible links between shoe bomber Richard Reid and al Qaeda. SEPTEMBER, 2002 -- Ramzi Binalshibh, a Yemeni national and onetime roommate of Mohammed Atta, suspected ringleader of the Sept. 11 hijackers, is captured in Karachi after a three-hour gunbattle. MARCH, 2003 -- Security forces arrest Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, then al Qaeda's number three and alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, in a raid in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad. -- Authorities arrest leading al Qaeda member, Moroccan national Yasir al-Jaziri, in the eastern city of Lahore. OCTOBER, 2003 -- Pakistani troops launch a major operation in South Waziristan tribal region, near Afghan border, against suspected al Qaeda men. Eight people are killed including Egyptian-born Canadian Ahmed Said Khadr, a suspected al Qaeda financier. DECEMBER, 2003 -- President Pervez Musharraf survives two assassination attempts near his official residence in Rawalpindi. Musharraf blames al Qaeda-linked militants for the attacks. MARCH, 2004 -- Pakistani forces battle al Qaeda-linked foreign militants and local allies in South Waziristan. More than 120 people are killed. No senior al Qaeda operative is arrested. JUNE, 2004 -- Military commander of Karachi Lieutenant-General Ahsan Saleem Hayat narrowly escapes an assassination attempt in a gun and bomb attack on his convoy in which 10 people are killed. -- Musaad Aruchi, a nephew of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, is arrested in Karachi. -- Security forces arrest eight Islamic militants linked to al Qaeda and suspected of involvement in the attack on Hayat. JULY, 2004 -- Mohammad Naeem Noor Khan, alias Abu Talha, a computer engineer, is arrested in Lahore. His arrest is crucial to catching 13 al Qaeda suspects in Britain. -- Security forces catch Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, key suspect in the 1998 attacks on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. -- Prime Minister-designate Shaukat Aziz escapes assassination attempt when a suicide bomber blows himself up near his car near Attock, 100 km (62 miles) west of Islamabad. AUGUST, 2004 -- Qari Saifullah Akhtar, Islamic militant who knew Osama bin Laden and was linked to assassination attempts on Musharraf, is arrested in Dubai and handed over to Pakistan. -- Security forces arrest two Turkish al Qaeda members linked to attack on Jewish target in Turkey and who fought in Chechnya. SEPTEMBER, 2004 -- Pakistan's security forces shoot dead Amjad Hussain Farooqi, wanted for his role in an assassination attempt on Musharraf and involvement in the killing of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl. 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