Senior militant commander arrested in Pakistan

September 23rd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Two militant commanders have been arrested in the Swat region of northwestern Pakistan during an operation of security forces, a media report said Wednesday. The security forces arrested extremist commanders Fazl Haq and Rasool Khan in the Charbagh tehsil of the Swat region, the private GEO News TV said.

September 21st, 2009 PESHAWAR - The fearsome militant commander, Sher Mohammad Qasab, who was arrested critically injured during Swat operation, has succumbed to his injuries. Swat media centre said that the militant commander was nabbed in critically injured condition four days ago from Charbagh area.

September 20th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Senior Al-Qaeda leader Ilyas Kashmiri, who was reportedly killed in a US drone attack in North Waziristan earlier this month, was once considered former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf's 'blue eyed boy'. Kashmiri, who was recently named the fourth most wanted terrorist by Pakistan's Interior Ministry, belonged to Pakistan occupied Kashmir's (PoK) Kotli region and was a former commando in the Pakistani Army.

September 16th, 2009 Pakistan makes another arrest in Swat ValleyISLAMABAD — Pakistan killed 10 insurgents and arrested a militant commander accused of beheading troops in the northwestern Swat Valley, notching up more successes in an offensive that has been welcomed at home and in the U.S., an army spokesman said Thursday. Sher Muhammad Qasab was captured this week at an undisclosed location in the valley, said Col.

August 23rd, 2009 SRINAGAR - Police in Kashmir Sunday claimed a major success with the arrest of a top functionary of the Al-Badr guerrilla group from north Kashmir's Sopore town. Zeenat-ul-Islam Shah, son of a local clergy, Gulam Hassan Shah, and resident of Sugan village in north Kashmir's Shopian district, was the chief commander of Al-Badr group and going under the codename Zahid.

August 23rd, 2009 SRINAGAR - The Jammu and Kashmir government has begun a probe into a possible "insider's hand" in the disappearance of a top guerrilla commander who gave police the slip before he could be re-arrested on other terror charges, well informed sources said Sunday. Nisar Bhat, who uses his code name Gazi Misbahuddin as the chief operational commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen militant outfit, was bailed out by a court in a particular case Wednesday.

August 23rd, 2009 SRINAGAR - Kashmir police claimed a major success with the arrest Sunday of a top functionary of the Al-Badr guerrilla group in north Kashmir's Sopore town. "Zahid, the chief commander of the Al-Badr group, was arrested by us in Sopore town.

August 21st, 2009 SRINAGAR - Police were Thursday looking for a top guerrilla commander who allegedly gave them a slip after a court ordered his release in a particular case and before he could be arrested on other charges pending against him. Nisar Ahmad alias Gazi Misbahuddin, chief commander (operations) of the Hizbul Mujahideen militant group, was set free by a south Kashmir court Wednesday.

August 12th, 2009 DERA ISMAIL KHAN - Two intelligence officials and a militant commander have said that clashes between rival militant groups in northwestern Pakistan have killed about 70 fighters. The officials say the clashes broke out on Wednesday in Jandola between fighters loyal to Pakistan's Taliban leader, Baitullah Mehsud, and those of Turkistan Bitani, a militant commander allied with the government.

July 27th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Taking its offensive forward on Monday, the Pakistan Army killed eleven militants killed and arrested 28, including wanted militant commander Kabir in the Swat and Malakand divisions. According to an Inter-Services Public Relations media release, two militants handed over themselves to security forces in Fizagat near Mingora.

June 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A suspected member of a banned Manipuri militant outfit was arrested Saturday evening from south Delhi, police said. The suspected militant was identified as Raghu Nath Singh.

June 26th, 2009 KARACHI - The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) has rebuked media reports that said at least 57 of its officials were arrested on charges of having links with various militant groups, saying none of its employees have been arrested in the past five years. A statement issued by the PAF said that after 2003, when some PAF personnel were arrested in connection with the assassination attempt on the life of then President General Pervez Musharraf, none of its officials have been taken into custody, The Daily Times reports.

May 2nd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - A senior Pakistani Taliban commander Saturday surrendered to the authorities in the country's tribal region, TV reports said. Security forces Saturday surrounded the house of Iftikhar Ahmed Khan, head of the Taliban in Khyber agency, and forced him to surrender, state-run PTV said citing officials.

April 13th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan police have arrested a close associate of Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud in the southern port city of Karachi, a police officer said Monday. Badshah din Mehsud, close aide of Baitullah Mehud, was arrested from Sachal Goth area of Karachi, Fayyaz Khan, a senior superintendent police told Dawn TV channel.

January 21st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Seven suspected Al Qaeda militants, including one who was reportedly involved in the 2005 bombings of the London transport system, were arrested in Bara Qadeem area of the Khyber tribal region, a media report said Thursday. The Dawn newspaper reported that some foreigners were among the seven arrested by Mehsud Scouts during a raid on the house of a local militant.