 Pakistan arrested five senior Taliban leaders Monday, including a deputy to fugitive Taliban chief Mullah Mohammed Omar, officials said to a foreign news agency. The arrests were made after security men raided several homes in northwestern Pakistan. Two of the captured men are reported to have been identified as Maulvi Abdul Qadeer, a deputy to Omar and formerly chairman of the Taliban Special Council, and Abdul Kabir, a former Governor in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province. Names of the remaining three are not known, but they are also reported to be important Taliban leaders, now being interrogated by authorities. |