Mulvi Kabir arrested from Nowshera
Police captured Kabir in the Nowshera district.—File photo.
WASHINGTON: Police in northwest Pakistan arrested Mulvi Kabir, one of the top 10 most wanted Taliban leaders and a former Taliban governor of Afghanistan’s Nangahar Province, Fox News reported on its website Sunday.
The network, citing two unnamed senior US officials, said that police captured Kabir in the Nowshera district.
The capture is a “significant detention,” a senior US military official in Afghanistan told Fox.
Information leading to Kabir’s capture was obtained from Mullah Baradar, the Taliban’s second in command, whose arrest was announced on February 18 following a joint US-Pakistani operation, according to Fox.
Baradar’s capture has resulted in the arrests of several Taliban leaders, US officials told Fox.—AFP
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