Ex-Taliban governor held

Published January 25, 2004

QUETTA, Jan 24: Law enforcement agencies on Saturday arrested Mullah Abdul Manan Khawajazai, a former Taliban commander and governor of Afghanistan's Sera-i-Pul province, at Chaman.

Sources said law enforcement agencies chased Mullah Khawajazai and took him into custody when he was passing through Mall Road in a car.

"He was taken to some unknown place for interrogation," the sources said.