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...
Pakistan has arrested Ustad Mohammed Yasir, a former Taliban spokesman, according to intelligence officials. The move may reassure Western officials concerned that tension with India is distracting Pakistan from fighting militants on the Afghan...
officials Posted January 4, 2009 09:48:00 Pakistani security officials say they have arrested a former spokesman for the Taliban leader Mullah Omar. Spokesman Ustad Yasar was detained in Pakistan's north-western city of Peshawar.
News Source: United Press International
| 11 months ago
Ustaz Muhammad Yasir, a high-ranking Taliban leader in Pakistan, had been arrested, Pakistani sources said Saturday . CNN reported its sources and a member of Yasir's family confirmed he had been taken into custody at the home of a relative in the...
Pakistani security officials say they have arrested a former senior Taliban figure who was released by Afghanistan in 2007 in exchange for a kidnapped Italian journalist. Authorities Saturday said they detained Ustad Mohammed Yasir, a former...
Ustad Mohammed Yasir, who used to be Taliban leader Mullah Omar's spokesman, was detained in Peshawar, capital city of North West Frontier Province. Yasir was Taliban leader Mullah Omar's spokesman after the regime's fall in Afghanistan in...
Pakistani authorities on Saturday detained Taliban leader Mullah Omar's former spokesperson, who was released by Afghanistan almost two years ago in exchange for a kidnapped Italian journalist. Authorities arrested Ustad Mohammed Yasir in...
Ustad Mohammad Yasir was detained on Thursday in the city of Peshawar, on the edge of Pakistan's lawless tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, the official told AFP. Yasir once served as spokesman for fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar after...
News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
| 11 months ago
Pakistan has arrested a former spokesman for Taliban leader Mullah Omar who was released by Afghanistan in 2007 in exchange for a kidnapped Italian journalist, security officials said Saturday. Authorities detained Ustad Mohammed Yasir in the...
Pakistani security agencies Saturday arrested a senior Afghan Taliban official who had been released from prison in Afghanistan in 2007 in exchange for a kidnapped Italian journalist, intelligence officials said. Ustad Yasar, who headed a Taliban...
Pakistan Security officials say Pakistan has arrested a former Taliban spokesman released by Afghanistan in 2007 in exchange for a kidnapped Italian journalist.
An intelligence official says authorities detained Ustad Mohammed Yasir in Peshawar...
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