DUSHANBE: Authorities in Tajikistan are holding the No 2 leader of a banned radical Islamic group, an official said on Monday. A probe into several suspected members of the Hizb-ut-Tahrir party who were arrested last year also revealed that some of the group's regional leaders were among them, Deputy Prosecutor General Abdusami Dadabayev said. He did not say exactly when the arrests were made and gave no further details. Also Monday, police in Kyrgyzstan said they had arrested a local Hizb-ut-Tahrir leader in the southern Osh region. Regional police spokesman Zamir Sydykov said that police seized 32 pistol bullets and video and audio tapes with extremist content during a search in Marufta Azimov's home after his arrest on Sunday.