The US intelligence agency FBI, which has been tracking Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants in Pakistan, would be collecting complete information about three million Pakistanis including criminals, politicians, industrialists and businessmen, officials were on Friday quoted as saying.
The US authorities want to collect all information about "every Tom, Dick and Harry" who is supposed to be able to pose threat to US interests, local daily Dawn quoted officials of the Pakistani interior ministry as saying.
In view of the possibility of a popular backlash, the Federal Bureau of Investigation will use domestic investigation agencies to collect the data, the daily said.
For the purpose, the US bureau is currently conducting a week-long course in Islamabad to train local officials.
At least 15 police inspectors were selected from each of the four provinces for the training course to be started from this month.
The policemen are being educated
on how to collect evidence from a crime scene, fingerprint an object and
take fingerprints of the suspects and examine them through specialised
software, the daily said.