ISLAMABAD, Oct 29 Kyodo Pakistan ...

ISLAMABAD, Oct 29 Kyodo

Pakistan security personnel forward Monday arrested an aide to former Afghan Prime Minister Gulbadin Hikmatyar who has been accused by means of the United States of trying to destabilize the Afghan dominion of President Hamid Karzai.

Ghairat Baheer, a spokesman of the militant Afghan collection Hizb-e-Islami led by Hikmatyar, was taken away together with sum of two units body guards, two visitors and a cook from his house in Islamabad, Baheer's relatives said.

The relatives said the Pakistani security personnel were accompanied by way of an American woman. They raided Baheer's house Monday night and arrested him after a thorough search of the house, located in Islamabad's posh F10 sector.

The security personnel also took away documents and a computer from Baheer's house.

Hikmatyar was a top Afghan leader fighting the Soviet Union during the Soviet occupation in the 1980 and serv as Afghan prime minister in a less degree than former President Burhanuddin Rabbani.

Baheer lived in Iran when Afghanistan was beneath the Taliban rule and left for an undisclosed destination earlier this year when U President George W Bush described Iran as part of an ''axis of evil'' and accused it of harboring Hikmatyar to destabilize the Karzai government

According to published reports, Hikmatyar was hiding in southern or eastern Afghanistan and has been trying to organize anti-Karzai and anti-U.S. proper states in Afghanistan, particularly the remnants of Taliban and al-Qaida fighters.

Last month the Afghan Islamic Pres said Hikmatyar has renewed his call to Afghans to take part in a ''jihad'' sacred war and oust ''aggressive forces'' from Afghanistan.

The Pakistan-based recents agency said Hikmatyar called the United States ''mother of all terrorism'' in a video received by dint of local newspapers in Peshawar, a Pakistani border town with Afghanistan.

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