Islamabad, Sept 14 (IRNA) Police in the Pakistani south-west city of Quetta on Wednesday arrested 14 Afghans, including members of suspected Taliban from a private hospital, officials said.
The arrested men include a Taliban commander Mulla Abdul Ghaffar and five injured who are thought to be injured during fighting in southern Helmand province.
Officials said that the police raided the hospital on a tip that injured Taliban fighters are being treated in the hospital.
They said that two serious injured were left in hospital and police were deployed and others were shifted to undisclosed location for questioning.
An injured man Abdullah told reporters that they are not Taliban but were cutting grass when came under coalition plane bombing.
A Pakistani official, requesting not to be named, claimed that it seems that the arrested men were injured in fighting in Afghanistan.
However, he said that it would be clear after the investigation whether or not they are Taliban.
Last month, the authorities also arrested 28 Afghans from another private hospital in the same area, who were also suspected to have links with Taliban. They are still languishing in a Quetta jail.
They had a letter from an international organization that they were injured in fighting but are being shifted to Quetta as there are no proper medical facilities in Kandahar.
Pakistan had handed over more than 100 suspects to the Afghan government but the authorities in Afghanistan had freed them, describing them as common Afghans.