Former Taliban defense minister arrested
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Pakistan arrested a former Taliban defense minister regarded as a top figure in the Afghan insurgency, a Pakistani intelligence official said Friday. Mullah Obaidullah Akhund, considered a key associate of fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Omar, is the most senior leader from the hard-line militia to be arrested since U.S.-led troops ousted it from power in 2001.
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US-LED and Afghan soldiers arrested two senior Taliban commanders and six militants during an operation in south-central Afghanistan, officials said today.
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Mullah Obeidullah is the most important Taliban member to be arrested since the invasion of Afghanistan by American forces in 2001.
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A former MP and critic of Pakistan's policies in Balochistan province "is in illegal detention".
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Another former minister is detained in Bangladesh as the government says it is stepping up an anti-corruption drive.
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Pakistani forces captured and critically wounded a senior Taliban militant on Monday
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DHAKA, Bangladesh, Sept. 3 -- Former prime minister Khaleda Zia was arrested Monday on fraud charges, as part of what the military-backed caretaker government here calls a war on corruption, police officials said.
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Security forces arrested former Bangladesh prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia for corruption on Monday, underlining the interim government's drive to root out graft under an emergency rule imposed eight months ago.
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The former Pakistani Prime Minister was arrested and deported Monday at Islamabad's airport on corruption charges.
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ISLAMABAD/KABUL  - Pakistani security forces have captured a high-ranking Taliban leader in the southwestern city of Quetta, a senior security official and Taliban sources said late Thursday
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U.S. and Iraqi troops on Thursday detained the deputy health minister, a follower of a radical Shiite cleric, a spokesman said.
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Pakistani security forces have arrested a former Taleban defence minister, intelligence officials say.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The reported capture of the former Taliban defense minister will probably boost Pakistan's antiterrorism credentials and deliver a setback to the insurgent movement, but some doubt it will curb militant violence.
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A former Bosnian Serb general who is considered the third most wanted war crimes fugitive in the Balkans was arrested on the Bosnia-Serbia border Thursday, police said.
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Afghan security forces have captured  Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar's personal security chief  as he traveled in a van to the southern city of Kandahar,  provincial officials told Reuters Tuesday.
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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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A former Bosnian Serb general and close aide to war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic is reportedly arrested.