PESHAWAR, April 17: The Crime Investigation Department (CID) arrested three Afghan nationals on the Kohat Road here on Monday over their suspected links with Afghanistan’s Taliban.

Eyewitnesses in the area told Dawn that about 15 personnel of the CID intercepted a car near the Zangali police checkpost on the Kohat Road. The car was coming from the Darra Adamkhel tribal region. On seeing law-enforcement personnel, the driver of the vehicle tried to accelerate but the former fired on its tyres. Three of its occupants were arrested, while one managed to escape. Two of those arrested were wearing burqas.

Sources confirmed that the Afghan nationals were arrested on information provided by the FIA, and added that they were closely linked with the Taliban who were fighting against the Karzai government and US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan.