Prominent Taliban leader arrested from Peshawar

By: sudhir

Peshawar : Pakistan | 10 months ago

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A senior Taliban leader was arrested from Peshawar on Saturday. A senior policeman confirmed that Ustad Yasir an Afghan national was arrested, but declined to give details. The arrest was made by an intelligence agency at around 9am, the sources said. Formerly a leader of Abdurrab Rasool Sayyaf’s Ittehad-e-Islami group in Afghanistan, Yasir joined the Taliban in 2001 after Sayyaf announced support for Afghan President Hamid KarzaiAfghan President Hamid Karzai. He was arrested from the NWFP in 2005 and released from Kabul’s Pul-e-Charkhi prison in exchange for kidnapped Italian journalist Daniele Mastrogiacomo.

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