Afghan police in co-operation with Nato-led peace keepers arrested 12 members of a fundamentalist faction believed to be closely allied with the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Kabul, the deputy interior minister said Sunday.
"Police in co-operation with International peace keepers on Saturday arrested 12 people of Hezb-i-Islami," General Hilaludin Hilal the deputy interior minister told AFP.
International Security Assistance forces (ISAF) with police raided the house of a Hezb-i-Islami commander, Naqeebudin, and sized six AK-47s, hand grenades and some other weapons, police said.
"Naqeebudin was killed in his house a while ago," but his house was still being used by suspected Talibans, the state news agency Bakhtar reported late Sunday.
The arrest comes three days after ISAF and Afghan police arrested 17 suspected Taliban insurgents in Kabul, one of them carrying a bomb.
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