PESHAWAR: A former senior Taliban Minster has been arrested in Peshawar onMonday night.
Hafez Mohibullah was the religious affairs minister in 1992 when theTaliban ran Afghanistan. Sources in the Afghan Taliban confirmed thedevelopment, Tribune has reported.
The move comes just a day before US special representative for Afghan peaceZalmay Khalilzad is arriving in Pakistan on a five-day visit on Tuesday(today) for talks with senior civil and military leaders.
Diplomatic sources said that during his stay in Islamabad, the US envoywould also hold delegation-level talks at the Foreign Office, regarding theAfghan peace process and negotiations process with the Afghan Taliban andthe US army’s withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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The sources said that Khalilzad would be accompanied by US Deputy Secretaryof State Alice Wells. His visit to Pakistan is part of a larger two weekstour, which also takes him to China, India and Afghanistan to “facilitate anegotiated settlement to the conflict in Afghanistan”.
The US State Department stated that the envoy continues to coordinate hisefforts with President Ashraf Ghani, Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah, andother Afghan stakeholders to ensure an intra-Afghan peace process.
