Pakistan said soldiers Wednesday arrested a third man from a list of most-wanted Taliban commanders in the Swat valley that offered hundreds of thousands of dollars in reward money.Sher Muhammad Qasab was the alleged local Taliban commander in Charbagh, in the heart of the former tourist region where the military launched a major assault this summer to defeat a deadly two-year Islamist insurgency.
Qasab, who with 15 other Taliban commanders in the northwest district had a price on his head of 10 million rupees (around 120,000 dollars), was "seriously injured" and "arrested in a military operation," the army said in a statement.
Military officials in the northwest city of Peshawar confirmed his arrest. "Troops encircled him from days. His three sons were also killed on Monday during the operation," a military official told AFP.