'Taleban leader held' in Pakistan
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Pakistani security forces have arrested a former Taleban defence minister, intelligence officials say.
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A Taleban commander who led attacks on British troops says he was freed from an Afghan prison after paying a bribe.
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One of North Africa's most wanted  Islamic militant leaders, accused in the kidnapping of 32  European tourists last year, has been taken into custody in  Algeria, authorities said on Thursday.
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Pakistani police say they have arrested a suspected Arab al-Qaida member following a shootout in the western city of Peshawar.
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A senior Bangladeshi politician is detained in prison for a further 30 days following his arrest last month.
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Afghan authorities say they have arrested one of the Taleban attackers who stormed a top Kabul hotel.
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Pakistan says it has arrested more than 500 Taleban militants this year and handed most of them to Afghanistan.
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Pakistani authorities says they have arrested a key al-Qaeda operative in the south-western city of Quetta.
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A senior Taliban commander was arrested by Pakistani forces as he tried to slip across the Afghan border into Pakistan.
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Pakistani security forces have  captured a high-ranking Taliban leader in the southwestern city  of Quetta, a senior Pakistani security official and Taliban  sources said on Thursday.
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Pakistani security personnel have captured the mastermind of a militant Islamic group who allegedly kidnapped three UN workers in Afghanistan.
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Pro-Taleban militants claim to have kidnapped more than 100 Pakistani soldiers near the Afghan border.
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Afghan security forces captured  Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar's personal security chief  on a bus to Kandahar, an Afghan security official in the  southern city told Reuters Tuesday.
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Pakistani security forces have  arrested the head of an Afghan militant group responsible for  kidnapping three U.N. workers in neighboring Afghanistan, the  information minister said on Saturday.
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A British man held without charge in Pakistan for more than a year and tortured on suspicion of links to Al-Qaeda was arrested on his return to London Friday, a rights group and police said.
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Security stepped up after arrests over alleged plot to break out of jail a disciple of Osama bin Laden
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Pakistani security forces captured the former Taliban defense minister, Pakistani intelligence officials said Friday, in what would be the highest-ranking leader from the Afghan insurgency to be arrested since it lost power in 2001.