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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Tuesday (Reuters) The FBI has joined the hunt for kidnapped U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl, Pakistan's interior minister said.

But a day after a false alarm that Pearl's body had been found dumped outside the southern city of Karachi, intelligence sources said investigators were still groping for clues to The Wall Street Journal reporter's whereabouts.

"Agents of the U.S. FBI have also been allowed to join the investigation," Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider told reporters in Karachi. "We have a number of clues on which we are working and I am hopeful that Daniel Pearl will safely be recovered from the kidnappers."

Police said their search had been expanded to all four of Pakistan's provinces and investigators were also checking for possible links between the kidnappers and criminal gangs.

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