{"id":35090,"date":"2013-03-07T10:58:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T08:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=35090"},"modified":"2013-03-07T10:58:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T08:58:04","slug":"pakistan-forces-arrest-top-taliban-commander-foreigner-35090","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/pakistan-forces-arrest-top-taliban-commander-foreigner-35090\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan forces arrest top Taliban commander, foreigner"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_35091\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35091\" style=\"width: 434px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-35091 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/TTP-Pakistan-Nationalturk-7.jpg\" alt=\"TTP militants carrying arms. 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File Pic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>Pakistani forces have reportedly arrested a top commander of dreaded militant outfit Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) \u00a0alongwith a foreigner in country\u2019s restive Khyber- Pakhtunkhwa province.<\/h1>\n<p>Islamabad, March 7\/Nationalturk- In a major setback to dreaded militant outfit Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Pakistani forces have reportedly arrested a top commander of the outfit alongwith a foreigner in country\u2019s restive Khyber- Pakhtunkhwa province.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan newspaper, The Dawn, quoted security sources as saying that operational commander of TTP\u00a0 Qari Basit and an unknown foreigner were arrested by Pakistan security agencies during a raid in Kheshgi town of Nowshera in Khyber- Pakhtunkhwa province.<\/p>\n<p>They said the Pakistani security agencies conducted raid in Kheshgi town of Nowshera yesterday after receiving inputs about presence of TTP commander in the area.<\/p>\n<h2>TTP commander, foreigner being questioned<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cThe TTP commander Qari Basit and the foreigner, whose name was not disclosed, were taken to an unknown place for questioning,\u201d sources said.<\/p>\n<p>They said Basit was involved in many terrorist attacks in the country. \u201cSecurity forces had been hunting for him\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said the two terrorists were in the area on a mission to attack country\u2019s Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain, who is on the hit list of TTP.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistani security officials remained tightlipped about the arrests. They have not made any statement in this regard so far.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Faiz Ahmad \/ NationalTurk Pakistan News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n<h1><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani forces have reportedly arrested a top commander of dreaded militant outfit Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)  alongwith a foreigner in country\u2019s restive Khyber- Pakhtunkhwa province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,1,118,85,101,14],"tags":[14077,47310,47318,47316,47314,47317,45950,47312,636,44808,47311,47313,47315,44919,46641,43131,2673,17886,42578,47319,42251],"class_list":["post-35090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-media-news","category-politics","category-world","tag-arrested","tag-dreaded-militant-outfit","tag-hit-list","tag-hunting","tag-kheshgi-town","tag-mian-iftikhar-hussain","tag-nowshera","tag-operational-commander","tag-pakistan","tag-pakistan-information-minister","tag-pakistani-forces","tag-qari-basit","tag-questioning","tag-restive-khyber-pakhtunkhwa","tag-setback","tag-tehreek-e-taliban-pakistan","tag-terrorist-attacks","tag-terrorists","tag-the-dawn","tag-tightlipped","tag-ttp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}