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Planner of attacks on NATO supplies arrested?

* Mustafa Kamal Kamran Hijrat reportedly arrested from Peshawar’s Ring Road on first day of Eid

Staff Report

PESHAWAR: A key Taliban commander accused of masterminding attacks on cargo terminals harbouring NATO supplies was arrested from a Peshawar suburb on first day of Eid, sources told Daily Times on Wednesday. Musatafa Kamal Kamran Hijrat allegedly organised two separate attacks on three cargo terminals on Sunday and Monday to burn hundreds of containers and the military and other supplies they carried. He is also blamed for the hijacking of two US military Humvees and 13 truckloads of wheat on their way to Afghanistan last month.

“He has been arrested from Ring Road on Tuesday,” the sources told Daily Times, asking not to be named. “He is not in touch with us for the last two days,” another source quoted the commander’s close aide, Kashmir Khan, as saying. “We don’t know whether he has gone to Afghanistan or has been arrested.” The Peshawar police chief did not confirm the arrest. “This is all gupshup (gossip),” Peshawar police chief Siffat Ghayur said. “We have made no such arrest.” Cases related to the war on terror are handled mostly by military intelligence networks. Police help in making the arrests. Mustafa Kamal, whose real name is Yahya Hijrat, was a district governor in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province during the Taliban rule.

He now leads a group of Taliban loyal to Baitullah Mehsud – Pakistan’s most wanted Taliban commander and the head of the defunct Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan – in the Khyber tribal region.

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