Taliban denies reports of arrested senior leaders in Pakistan

Taliban has denied reports, suggesting arrest of senior Taliban leader Maulvi Mohammad Kabir in Pakistan along with seven others, said a news report on Tuesday.A Taliban spokesman, Abdul Haye Motmaee, talking to Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press (AIP), said that Kabir was somewhere inside Afghanistan and he himself had talked to him."Reports that Maulvi Mohammad Kabir, the head of Taliban political committee has been arrested by security agencies in Pakistan are absolutely false," he said adding that he never visited Pakistan and is now commanding Taliban forces in Paktika province.Police sources on Monday said that they have arrested eight Taliban suspects including two former leaders, Maulvi Abdul Kabir and Maulvi Abdul Qadeer.

Could be another Talib of the same name, or they could be lying through
their teeth.