Islamabad, Mar 07: Two sons of Osama bin Laden were arrested in southeastern Afghanistan in a joint operation involving US forces, Pakistan's Provincial Home Minister said. ``They were arrested from Rabat area in Afghanistan,'' Sanaullah Zehri told the associated press in a telephone interview. He did not identify the sons, but said seven other al-Qaeda men were killed in the operation. Zehri refused to identify which forces were involved in the operation. ``They were allied forces,'' he said. Rabat is at the extreme tip of southwestern Afghanistan where the Afghan, Pakistan and Iran borders meet. Bureau Report