| The governor also said that police raided a suspected Taliban compound in the same district and seized a bomb-fitted motorbike. |
Afghan authorities on Tuesday said that they had arrested a Pakistani national who had allegedly been providing suicide bombers to the Taliban in eastern Paktika province. The man, whose name was not revealed, was “in charge of recruiting suicide bombers and equipping them,” provincial governor Mohammad Akram Khpolwak said. He was arrested from Bermal district in the bordering Paktika province on Monday, the governor said. He gave no further details saying that the case was under investigation. The governor also said that police raided a suspected Taliban compound in the same district and seized a bomb-fitted motorbike. However the owner of the motorcycle fled before the raid, he added.