Pakistan arrests one of Taliban's top three: sources
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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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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 11 -- A top Taliban commander in Afghanistan who claimed close ties to al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was captured Monday in southwestern Pakistan, according to a Pakistani military official.
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Pakistan says it has arrested the head of a militant Islamic group suspected of kidnapping UN workers in Afghanistan.
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KABUL - Three suspected Taliban members have been arrested for allegedly trying to kill Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai Thursday by shooting down his helicopter with a rocket.
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Pakistani security forces have arrested a key Al-Qaeda operative wanted in connection with attacks on Christian targets and a failed bid to kill President Pervez Musharraf, an official said.
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Police arrested 39 Afghans suspected of being Taliban fighters in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, an official said Tuesday, though an Islamist group insisted the detainees were only students.
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Security forces have detained more than  a dozen suspected militants, including some linked to al Qaeda,  after killing Pakistan's most wanted man in a weekend shootout,  intelligence sources said on Tuesday.
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Pakistan has arrested former Taliban defense minister Mullah Obaidullah Akhund, regarded as top figure in the Afghanistan insurgency, a Pakistani intelligence official said Friday.
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Pakistan has arrested a Yemeni  national who is an important figure in al Qaeda's new  leadership and another foreign national who is one of the  network's communications specialists, officials said on  Wednesday.
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Afghan security forces arrested a Pakistani intelligence officer in the east of the country, a presidential spokesman said, a day after an army general was arrested for alleged espionage.
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A man who launched a militant Islamic group to fight US forces in Afghanistan has been arrested in connection with the kidnapping of three UN workers there in October, a senior Pakistani Cabinet minister said Saturday.
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Pakistani security forces have arrested an Islamic militant suspected of involvement in a 2002 bomb attack on the U.S. consulate in Karachi in which 12 Pakistanis were killed, officials said on Thursday.
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Pakistani police arrested 17 Afghans  suspected of being Taliban militants, including a former Kabul  police chief and a provincial governor, police said on Friday.
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A suspected Islamic militant accused of involvement in two failed assassination attempts on Pakistan's president was arrested near a remote northwestern village Sunday, a security official said.
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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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Pakistani forces captured and wounded a top Taliban commander Monday, while Islamabad's ambassador to Afghanistan was feared abducted in a troubled tribal border region, officials said.
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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.