Taliban Leader Arrested In Pakistan: Officials

From Yahoo News/Reuters:

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – 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 information wing, was arrested in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, they said.

"Our security forces raided a house on a tip-off and arrested Ustad Yasar," said an intelligence official who declined to be identified.

The official said Yasar had been detained because he was a militant commander and involved in Taliban activities.

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