 ASADABAD: Afghan police have arrested a Pakistani man in eastern Kunar province in connection with the recent killing of a Turkish engineer in Sawkai district, officials said on Saturday. The deputy head of the local intelligence department, Jaseem Khan, said that Mohammad Bota, from Karachi, had been arrested in the provincial capital Asadabad on Tuesday, December 21, as he was trying to leave the city. He said that the accused was a member of banned militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which supported the ousted Taliban regime, reported Pajhwok Afghan News. The Turkish engineer, working on a road project in Kunar, was killed on December 15 one day after he was seized by a gang of unknown gunmen, along with two Afghan colleagues.
| I've been referring to the "Taliban" for awhile now as Pakistanis. I think we can stop calling them "Taliban," too. I don't think there's even much pretense left, is there? |
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