US and Pakistani agents were interrogating the Taliban's former defence minister Saturday in the hope that he can help them hunt down other militant leaders.
Mullah Obaidullah Akhund, who had a one-million-dollar bounty on his head posted by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), was arrested with four other suspects on Wednesday in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta.
Akhund, a key aide to Taliban supremo Mullah Mohammad Omar and an insurgent commander in southern Afghanistan, was flown to the capital Islamabad by helicopter after his capture.
The CIA and Federal Bureau of Investigation are operating in Pakistan in small numbers.
US officials have been involved in the questioning of several key Al-Qaeda and Taliban figures captured by Pakistani forces since thousands of militants fled the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
Pakistan has also handed a number of suspects to the United States, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-confessed mastermind of the September 11 attacks.
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