By Xinhua
Kabul : Afghan security forces have nabbed a Taliban commander in the eastern Afghan province of Paktia, media reported Wednesday.
“Acting on intelligence information, the security forces fighting terrorists captured Taliban commander Mohammad Khan alias Nasrat from Paktia’s provincial capital Gerdez,” the Arman-e-Millie newspaper quoted provincial administration’s spokesman Deen Mohammad Darwish as saying.
Darwish, according to the newspaper, described Nasrat as a regional commander of Taliban, adding that he had organised several terrorist activities in Paktia and neighbouring provinces.
There was no comment from the insurgents.
The Taliban, who was removed from power by the US invasion in late 2001, has waged a war against the Afghan administration and the international troops currently being deployed in the war-torn country.