QUETTA, Feb 22: Police on Tuesday arrested a suspected Taliban activist in Balochistan. A Kalashnikov rifle with ammunition, a mobile phone and a Thuraya satellite phone were seized as well as some documents, police said , indicating the detainee may have links with senior members of the ousted Afghan regime.

"We are scanning telephone numbers on the Thuraya to determine if the man had been in touch with Taliban leaders," police officer Rauf Bareach told AFP.

Police refused to disclose the name of the detainee, who was captured in a raid on near Kuchlak town, 17km north of Quetta. Last month police arrested 17 Afghans including some Taliban suspects in a swoop on their hideouts in Quetta. -AFP