| A SUSPECTED top Taliban commander has been arrested in an affluent Kabul neighbourhood by Afghan police and international peacekeepers, a senior official said today. Abdul Hadi, who commanded the hardliners' forces in northern Afghanistan until late 2001, was arrested yesterday, Deputy Interior Minister General Hilaludin Hilal said. "Hadi was arrested with four AK-47 machine guns, a long distance radio and documents indicating he was involved in several terror incidents," Hilal said, without elaborating. Hadi was a former commander for the Hizb-i-Islami fundamentalist faction of wanted warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar but later joined the Taliban movement, Hilal said. The arrest in the upmarket Wazir Akbar Khan -- home to several embassies, prominent officials and a US-led coalition base - was a joint operation with troops from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, he said. |