ISLAMABAD Interior Minister Rehman Malik told the Upper House of the Parliament on Wednesday that security agencies had so far apprehended 2,200 suspected terrorists in the country and out of them 80 terror suspects were arrested from the Federal Capital. Responding to different points of order raised by Senators Haji Ghulam Ali, Shahid Bugti and Ghafoor Haidri, Malik said that the arrests were made possible with the help of information gathered by secret agencies. He added that security agencies were rendering invaluable sacrifices in the war against terrorism and deserved appreciation instead of condemnation. He also informed that the terrorists captured from Islamabad included 11 would-be suicide bombers. He, however, assured of taking strict action against officials of secret agencies if found involved in unlawful harassment of citizens. Malik also reiterated that India was interfering in Balochistan through Afghanistan, adding that the matter had been taken up with Afghan President, and places from where infiltration took place in Balochistan from Afghanistan were pointed out to Hamid Karzai. Regarding the missing persons issue, Malik said there were less reality and more myths about their number. The final list provided by Balochistan government has 992 names, but no details have been given about more than 600 persons included in the list, Malik said. He further said that only 43 forms distributed by government for identification of missing persons were received so far. Meanwhile, Senator Shahid Bugti, Ishaq Dar and others belonging to both treasury and opposition benches staged a token walkout after a brief verbal brawl over the issue of missing persons. Senator Bugti protested that Malik was not sharing relevant facts about the missing persons. Later, while winding up discussion over the security situation in Karachi after the Ashura bomb blast and the arson that followed, Malik said that two main suspects and 27 other rioters identified through CCTV footage had been apprehended. As per the interim report of FIA, Malik said, the rioters came out of the procession met by other miscreants. He said authorities were going through the 26 gigabytes footage gathered from various cameras. He further said that connections of the various terror incidents in Karachi were traced back to South Waziristan and sectarian elements. He said detailed facts would be shared with the House within ten days after completion of the FIA report. He assured that shopkeepers who lost their businesses in the incident would be duly compensated and their shops would be handed over to them again. He also said that security forces had only raided two houses in Liari and had carried out no operation. The Minister further said that Government had successfully toppled the conspiracy being hatched against the economic hub of the country, adding that no target-killing incident happened in Liari or Pak Colony during the last 75 hours. He said PPP and MQM had agreed on objective action against miscreants belonging to any party. The House also initiated discussion over Senator Raza Rabbani and Deputy Chairman Senate Jan Muhammad Jamalis adjournment motion regarding fresh US screening guidelines subjecting Pakistani nationals to special security checks. Senator Raza Rabbani while taking part in the discussion said that the new US screening guidelines were discriminatory and repugnant to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. He said under the said guidelines, Pakistani citizens travelling to USA were presumed as terrorists unless proved otherwise. He urged the Foreign Ministry to effectively take up the issue at concerned fora or extend the same treatment to US nationals visiting Pakistan. Deputy Chairman Senate Jan Muhammad Jamali said, I will be happy when our typical policeman carries out body search of US nationals in the same way as our citizens are searched while travelling to USA. Senator Haji Adeel suggested that no Senate or National Assembly delegation should visit USA or receive their delegations until the said guidelines were taken back. He too called for extending reciprocal treatment to US nationals. Senator Wasim Sajjad said that Pakistani citizens were subjected to discrimination whoever on earth committed an act of terror in USA. He stressed upon the President and the Prime Minister not to visit USA unless the new security guidelines were revised.