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Pakistan arrests aide to Mullah Omar
Pakistani security forces have arrested a former Afghan Taliban governor, a close aide of Islamic militiaâs supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, officials said. Security forces seized Maulvi Abdul Mannan Khawajazai as he stepped out of a car in the Pakistani border town of Chaman in the countryâs south-west, an official who asked not to be named told Reuters. He said intelligence agencies had been chasing Khawajazai for several days after learning he was in the south-western border area of Pakistan. A Taliban spokesman said Khawajazai had been close to the movementâs supreme leader Omar and was the former governor of the western Afghan province of Badghis. A Pakistani intelligence source said Khawajazai used to manage the Talibanâs financial matters. It was not immediately clear whether Khawajazai would be handed over to the United States like fellow Taliban members arrested in Pakistan and now in detention in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.Posted by: Dan Darling 2004-01-24 |
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