It has been announced that the top Taliban military commander, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, has been captured in Karachi, after a top secret raid by Pakistani and US intelligence forces.

Pakistan confirmed that a top Taliban official has been captured and it was the military commander, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, who is described as one of the masterminds at the heart of the Islamist guerilla groups operations.

Pakistan has also said that the capture of the military commander is the most significant one since the start of the Afghanistan war.

Mullah Baradar, who is deputy to Mullah Omar, the Taleban’s supreme commander, had regularly visited Karachi, which Pakistani and Western intelligence agencies believe has become a major haven for the Afghan Taleban leadership.

Citing US government officials, The New York Times said that Baradar had been in Pakistani custody for several days and was being interrogated by Pakistani and US intelligence officers. Pakistani officials would not say where he was being detained.

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