This Article is From Feb 22, 2010

Pak police arrest another Taliban leader: Report

Washington: Police in northwest Pakistan arrested Maulvi Kabir, one of the top 10 most wanted Taliban leaders and a former Governor of Afghanistan's Nanghar province, Fox News reported on its website.

The network, citing two unnamed senior US officials, Sunday said that Pakistani police captured Kabir in the New Shera district of Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province. The capture is a "significant detention," a senior US military official in Afghanistan told Fox.

According to Fox, the information leading to Kabir's capture was obtained from Mullah Baradar, the Taliban second in command, whose arrest was announced on February 18 following a joint US-Pakistani operation.

Baradar's capture has resulted in the arrests of several Taliban leaders -- the people US officials told Fox are "shadow governors" that operate from Pakistan's frontier and tribal regions.

The Pentagon announced that two other Taliban officials were arrested after Baradar's capture. Those include Mullah Abdul Salem, based in Afghanistan's Kunduz province, and Mullah Mir Mohammad, based in the Baghlan Province, the New York Times reported citing Afghan officials.
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