Key Taliban Political Mastermind Arrested in Pakistan

It is so very nice to hear of Another top Taliban Ass Monkey , being arrested !


Foxnews
Pakistan security forces arrested a suspected Taliban mastermind on Thursday, Fox News has learned.

Mohtasim Agha Jan is thought to be a chief Taliban political strategist in Karachi.

"He is a close aide of spiritual leader Mullah Omar and ranked number seven on the post 9/11 watch list," a U.S. intelligence official told Fox News.

His arrest may be due in part to the CIA's interrogation of suspected terrorist Abdul Ghani Baradar, who was arrested in early February.

After the arrest of Ghani Baradar, Mohtasim Agha Jan's name surfaced in discussions about who might replace the Afghan Taliban's No. 2.

He is a former Taliban finance minister who is reported to have family links to Taliban leader Mullah Omar. As a government official, he had the power to control the flow of money and appoint deputy ministers. He was born in the late 1960s in Kandahar city.

The arrests have been hailed by U.S. officials and many analysts as a major blow to the Taliban in Afghanistan, though they caution that the group has rebounded from the death or detention of previous leaders.