Afghan President Hamid Karzai told a US envoy this year that the Pakistani government is forcing Taliban fighters to keep fighting coalition forces, according to a State Department cable released by WikiLeaks.
WASHINGTON — Pakistani security officers who captured the Taliban's top commander in a raid in Karachi discovered only later who they had, the New York Times reported Friday.
Updates at bottom: Pakistan official blasts reports as 'propaganda'; 'Capture' comes two days after WaPo reported Obama admin. caught no 'high value detainees'
The Taliban's top military commander has been arrested in a joint CIA-Pakistani operation in Pakistan in a major victory against the insurgents as U.S. troops push into their heartland in southern Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday.