(KUNA) -- The Law-Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) Wednesday arrested 14 Taliban militants, six of them wounded, in Southwestern Pakistani province of Baluchistan, said LEA sources.
Rehmatullah Niazi, Chief of CID (Crime Investigation Department), talking to KUNA said that the suspected militants were arrested in a raid on Pakistan General Hospital on Zahoor road of Quetta, the provincial capital. He said six suspects were wounded and the rest were their attendants. He added that all of the arrested suspects are Afghan nationals and belong to Southern Helmand province. It was not immediately clear whether the arrested militants were key Taliban figures but Niazi said that they are under interrogation. |