Pakistani policemen escort a suspected militant of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan. – Photo by AFP

ISLAMABAD: Security forces, after conducting a search operation, have arrested a top ranking banned Tehreek-e-Taliban commander in the capital.

Sources said that that TTP commander Bakht Farzandi was arrested in Islamabad's suburbs. He is associated with the Qari Ziaur Rehman group.

He has been taken to an undisclosed location where investigations have now begun, sources said.

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