PESHAWAR, Sept 25: An official of ousted Taliban regime has been arrested in a raid in a border town, a security official said on Sunday. Mullah Hamidullah, who was in charge of the Taliban’s Department for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Khost, was captured on Saturday.

A security official said security forces raided a house in the remote Basya Khel town of Bannu district, where Hamidullah had been hiding.

He has been moved to Peshawar for “interrogation by a team of civilian and military officials,” the source said.

Hamidullah was wanted for allegedly mobilising tribesmen for militant activity, he said.

He escaped arrest when the military launched a search operation in North Waziristan earlier this month, the official said.

THREE KILLED: Three suspected Taliban insurgents were killed when a bomb they were planting in southern Afghanistan detonated prematurely, police said on Sunday.—AFP