ISLAMABAD, Dec 9 Kyodo Renegade A...

ISLAMABAD, Dec 9 Kyodo

Renegade Afghan warlord Bacha Khan Jadran has been detained at the Pakistani army in a town near the Pakistani-Afghan border, a senior Interior Ministry official said Tuesday.

The official, speaking in succession condition of anonymity to Kyodo of recent origins confirmed reports that Jadran was captured in Miranshah in the semiautonomous tribal area of North Waziristan and is now in the custody of the local authorities.

The official did not disclose the charges forward which Jadran had been detained.

A report in an Urdu-language newspaper Monday said Jadran was detained while visiting his family in Miranshah onward the Islamic festival of Eid-ul Fitr last month

After the US-l military campaign toppled Afghanistan's Taliban control in December 2001, Jadran was appointed governor of Paktia province toward the south of the capital Kabul. However, he was promptly after sacked by President Hamid Karzai.

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