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| Pakistan Arrests Alleged Taliban Fighter |
| 2005-05-02 |
| Intelligence agents raided an Islamic seminary in southern Pakistan and arrested a suspected Taliban fighter wanted by Afghanistan in the 2001 killing of a pro-U.S. Afghan leader, officials said Monday. The suspect, identified as Sirajul Haq, was detained late Sunday in eastern Karachi along with another man, an intelligence official said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity, in accordance with the policy of Pakistani intelligence officers not to make their names public. Haq, an Afghan national, is wanted in the death of Abdul Haq, a pro-U.S. Afghan leader who was captured and killed by the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan in 2001. Abdul Haq, had he lived, probably would have become the Afghan leader. He was caught and immediately hanged from the nearest tree, while the rest of the world wrings their hands in angst that Guantanamo captives have only the freshest toothpaste to shove up their asses. The two are not related. The Taliban captured Abdul Haq, 43, when he slipped into his homeland from neighboring Pakistan on a secret mission to try to incite a rebellion against the hard-line Islamic militia. Haq, a prominent guerrilla commander who fought the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s, was executed in October 2001. A U.S.-led coalition ousted the Taliban regime in late 2001 for harboring al-Qaida. Another Pakistani intelligence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the suspect arrested at the seminary was an official in the Taliban-run administration of the southern city of Kandahar, the Taliban's stronghold, but was not a senior figure in the militia. The Afghan Embassy in Islamabad, the Pakistani capital, could not confirm Haq's arrest and officials at the Interior Ministry were not immediately available for comment. In Afghanistan, a spokesman for Din Mohammed, governor of the eastern province of Nangarhar and Abdul Haq's brother, declined to discuss the arrest. Officials in Afghanistan's national government in Kabul did not respond to requests for comment. One of the intelligence officials in Karachi said Afghan authorities had been offering a reward in exchange for information leading to Haq's arrest, but it was not clear how much was offered. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #1 Obiously one's a right wing Haq and the other a left wing Haq |
| Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2005-05-02 1:14:05 PM |