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Taliban’s Key Member Arrested in Faryab
Afghan security forces have arrested the Taliban’s tax collector in northern Faryab province, Interior Ministry (MoI) said in a statement.
In a statement released, MoI said that a key member of the Taliban militant group was detained by Afghanistan’s anti-terrorism police in the provincial capital, Maimana city of Faryab, on Friday morning.
According to the statement, the individual was identified as Qari Ghulam Yahya, a designated tax collector of Taliban for Pashtonkot district of the province.
The Afghan soldiers have also seized an AK-47 rifle of the insurgent, the statement added.
In a separate incident, Afghan police arrested two irresponsible armed men while they were patrolling in PD2 of Maimana city on Thursday.
The Taliban militant group yet to make a comment about the incident.