LAHORE: Pakistani security forces have detained a top commander of the Al Qaeda-linked Haqqani Network as he was returning from Saudi Arabia to the network’s headquarters, according to Newsweek. Nasiruddin Haqqani, son of Jalaluddin, the patriarch of the Haqqani Network, was detained along with a Haqqani Network leader known as Mullah Muhammad Jan and three others.
Nasiruddin was captured as he was traveling by car from Peshawar to Miranshah in North Waziristan, the headquarters of the Haqqani Network. “Nasiruddin and his four traveling companions were arrested just as they were returning from the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, a trip that also had included substantial fundraising activities,” Afghan Taliban sources told Newsweek.
