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Published 14 Aug, 2011 04:31pm

Taliban commander arrested in Islamabad

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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