Musharraf assassination attempt: Key Taliban commander held

Two Pakistani intelligence officials said that security forces have arrested a key Taliban commander linked to a 2003 assassination attempt on former President Pervez Musharraf.

The officials said on Wednesday that Adnan Rashid was captured last Friday during a raid at a home in the town of Shakai in the South Waziristan region.

The officials said Rashid was hiding there after fleeing from North Waziristan, where Pakistan in June launched an operation against militants.

In 2003, a suicide bomber tried to ram Musharraf’s vehicle near Islamabad. Rashid was later convicted over the assassination attempt and imprisoned, but escaped during a jail break orchestrated by the Pakistani Taliban in 2012.