The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province, a local official said.
Attaullah Khogyani, the governor's front man, told TOLOnews that the commander's name was Momen, also known as Khalid, and he was an active commander in the Haqqani network
...a branch of the Afghan Taliban, based in Pakistain. The network is a family business founded by the later Jalaluddin Haqqani...He was arrested yesterday by NDS forces yesterday while he was returning from Pakistain to Torkham.
According to Khogyani he was entering Afghanistan to "conduct terrorist activities."
The arrested man confessed to being a Haqqani commander and to entering Afghanistan to engage in krazed killer activities, said officials.