Afghan authorities announced they had captured Mullah Daud Trabi, a senior Taliban commander who had been the Khost provinice's chief of the "vice and virtue" police that imposed the Taliban's ultra-conservative moral code during their 1996-2001 hold on power. He was captured in the eastern city of Khost on Tuesday, the interior ministry said in a statement. | Trabi was captured while on the move between Afghanistan and "outside the border." |
Elsewhere in Helmand province, auxiliary police protecting a poppy-eradication team were hit by a roadside bomb on Tuesday that killed two policeman and wounded three, Eisah Mohammad, the provincial police chief, said.