{"id":346865,"date":"2010-02-21T16:57:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T21:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=77242"},"modified":"2010-02-21T16:57:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T21:57:36","slug":"another-top-taliban-leader-arrested-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/346865","title":{"rendered":"Another Top Taliban Leader Arrested in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20100221\/wl_asia_afp\/afghanistanunresttalibanpakistanus\">Apparently a direct result<\/a> of the interrogation of captured deputy Afghan Taliban commander Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Police in northwest Pakistan arrested Mulvi Kabir, one of the top 10 most wanted Taliban leaders and a former Taliban governor of Afghanistan&#8217;s Nangahar Province, Fox News reported on its website Sunday.<span id=\"more-77242\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The network, citing two unnamed senior US officials, said that Pakistani police captured Kabir in the Naw Shera district of Pakistan&#8217;s Northwest Frontier province.<\/p>\n<p>The capture is a &#8220;significant detention,&#8221; a senior US military official in Afghanistan told Fox.<br \/>\nInformation leading to Kabir&#8217;s capture was obtained from Mullah Baradar, the Taliban?s second in command, whose arrest was announced on February 18 following a joint US-Pakistani operation, according to Fox.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And to think, the Los Angeles Times <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2010\/feb\/19\/world\/la-fg-taliban-suspects20-2010feb20\">reported<\/a> yesterday that some U.S. officials are concerned that the Pakistanis aren&#8217;t getting Baradar to talk. Meanwhile, Pakistan launched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/reuters\/2010\/02\/20\/world\/international-pakistan-violence.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">jet strikes<\/a> on insurgent positions in South Waziristan as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently a direct result of the interrogation of captured deputy Afghan Taliban commander Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar: Police in northwest Pakistan arrested Mulvi Kabir, one of the top 10 most wanted Taliban leaders and a former Taliban governor of Afghanistan&#8217;s Nangahar Province, Fox News reported on its website Sunday. The network, citing two unnamed senior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}