A senior officer serving in Pakistan’s army has been detained for alleged contacts with banned extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir.
Brig Ali Khan is being interrogated by military intelligence, the army says.
“We follow a zero tolerance policy of any such activity within the army,” a military spokesman said.
Brig Khan, serving at Pakistan’s military headquarters in Rawalpindi, was detained last month. His family say he is innocent.
The brigadier is one of the most senior serving officers accused of links with extremists in Pakistan in recent years.
“He is under detention and an investigation is in progress for his contacts with a proscribed militant organisation,” military spokesman Maj Gen Athar Abbas told BBC Urdu’s Asif Farooqi.