News Source: BBC South Asia
| 2 months ago
The arrest of Muslim Khan is not a turning point in the context of the army operation in Pakistan's troubled Swat district. But it still holds great significance, given the fact that recent events had catapulted him into the top ranks of the Taliban...
News Source: Press TV
| 2 months ago
Military spokesman Major-General Athar Abbas said on Friday that Muslim Khan and Mahmood Khan who had a 10 million rupee (USD120,482) bounty on their heads have been arrested by security forces in a successful operation in Swat Valley. "The arrested...
News Source: Sify News
| 2 months ago
A Taliban spokesman was arrested in the Swat Valley, where troops have spent five months fighting Islamist insurgents, Pakistan's military said Friday. Army spokesman Major General Athar Abbas said Muslim Khan was captured with four colleagues,...
News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
| 2 months ago
In an April 17, 2009 file photo Muslim Khan talks to The Associated Press at his base in Imam Deri, Mingora, in Pakistan's Swat Valley. Pakistan arrested the spokesman for the Taliban in the Swat Valley and four other senior commanders, the military...
News Source: Asian Wall Street Journal
| 2 months ago
The Pakistani army has dealt another blow to the Taliban insurgency, capturing a top commander who once worked in Boston, Mass. as a housepainter. The white-bearded commander, Muslim Khan, had spearheaded the two-year long insurgency in Swat valley...
News Source: Uinta County News
| 2 months ago
The world's most infamous proliferator, who was just released after five years of house arrest, has been caught stealing in a column for Pakistan's The News: The newspaper column in question, “ Science of computers — part I ,” appears to have...