KABUL, May 9: A senior Taliban commander has been arrested in a joint raid by US and Afghan forces in a troubled province in southern Afghanistan, an official said on Sunday.
Mulla Roozi Khan, Taliban's high-ranking commander for Zabul province, was arrested in a military operation that involved several hundred US and Afghan troops backed by US helicopter gunships, said Zabul's governor Kheyal Mohammad Husseini.
He said that over 30 armed Taliban have also been arrested in the operation started on Friday in several districts near the border with Pakistan. "Roozi Khan is among the other 30 Taliban fighters who we captured," Husseini told Reuters.
