Pakistani security forces Monday seized a top militant accused of harboring Al-Qaeda insurgents, beheading troops and supplying arms to a rebel cleric in the country's northwest, officials said.
The man was captured in the northwestern Swat Valley, a former tourist spot where Pakistani troops are battling pro-Taliban Islamists seeking to impose harsh Sharia law, security officials said.
Chief military spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad confirmed to AFP that security forces had arrested a "top suspect involved in militancy."
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