By Sami Yousafzai and Mark Hosenball
Another leader of the Afghan Taliban has been captured by
authorities in Pakistan working in partnership with U.S. intelligence
officials. Taliban sources in the region and a counterterrorism
officials in Washington have identified the detained insurgent leader
as Mullah Abdul Salam, described as the Taliban movement's "shadow
governor" of Afghanistan's Kunduz province.
Taliban sources told NEWSWEEK's Sami Yousafzai that Salam was
grabbed by Pakistani security forces in the city of Faisalabad about a
week ago—close to the same time that Pakistani forces, again with
American support, captured the Afghan Taliban's No. 2 leader, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, in Karachi. The Taliban sources said that Mullah Salam was arrested with three other militants.
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