Security forces on Monday seized a top militant accused of harbouring al Qaeda insurgents, beheading troops and supplying arms to a cleric in NWFP, officials said. The man was captured in Swat Valley, security officials said.
Chief military spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad confirmed to AFP that security forces had arrested a "top suspect involved in militancy."
"He is under interrogation. The man identified himself as Parwant and says he is local," Arshad said, adding the man's real name was not yet known. The suspect was involved in "harbouring al Qaeda" and of supplying arms to Maulana Fazlullah, the renegade cleric leading the rebellion in Swat, a senior security official said on condition of anonymity. He is also a key suspect in the beheading of several paramilitary troops in Swat in October.