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| Top Afghan militant 'captured' | |
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| A leading Afghan Taleban fighter has been captured after a shootout with security forces in south-west Pakistan, police say. | |
| They say Mansoor Dadullah was injured in the incident in Balochistan province - earlier reports said he had died. | |
| In December the Afghan Taleban said Mansoor Dadullah had been sacked for disobeying orders. | In December the Afghan Taleban said Mansoor Dadullah had been sacked for disobeying orders. |
| He had succeeded his brother, Mullah Dadullah, who was killed in a joint Afghan-Nato operation last May. | He had succeeded his brother, Mullah Dadullah, who was killed in a joint Afghan-Nato operation last May. |
| Police say that the shootout happened in the village of Gowal Ismail Zai, near the Afghan border. | |
| "We had reports of his presence from intelligence sources... he was hiding in a house in the village. Four others were also arrested including three guards of Dadullah," Balochistan police chief Saud Gohar told the AFP news agency. | |
| Dadullah succeeded his elder brother - the senior Taleban military commander Mullah Dadullah - after he was killed in an Afghan and Nato operation in southern Afghanistan in May 2007. | |
| The Taleban said in a statement late December that they had sacked Mansoor Dadullah "because he disobeyed orders of the Islamic Emirate" of the Taleban. | |
| There has been no comment yet from the Taleban about Mansoor Dadullah's fate. |