AFGHAN AUTHORITIES HAVE ARRESTED AN IMPORTANT TALIBAN COMMANDER IN THE...

World | March 25, 2002, Monday // 00:00

Afghan authorities have arrested an important Taliban commander in the southern border town of Spinboldak, an official said on Monday. Mullah Rehmatullah, who was commander of the Tangi area in Takhta Pul district, 50 km (30 miles) south of Kandahar, was arrested on Sunday in a raid in Spinboldak, across the border from the Pakistani town of Chaman, the official said. The official, who asked not to be named, told Reuters that Rehmatullah had been responsible for handling a stream of foreign fighters coming into Afghanistan to fight alongside the ultra-Islamic Taliban.

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