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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Pakistan handed over a senior aide of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar to U.S. officials, a Pakistani newspaper reported Thursday.
The Urdu language Daily Ausaf said Mullah Khairkhwah was now in the custody of the U.S. forces.
Khairkhwah was the governor of the western Herat province before the collapse of the Taliban regime on Nov. 13. He also held several other senior positions during the five-year Taliban rule in Afghanistan and was considered a close confidante of Mullah Omar.
Khairkhwah is the second senior Taliban official Pakistan handed over to U.S. officials. In December, Pakistan turned over Taliban's former ambassador to Islamabad, Mullah Abdus Salaam Zaeef. Zaeef is now at a U.S. prison facility in Cuba.
Khairkhwah was arrested in a Pakistani border village earlier this month.
On Wednesday, U.S. Marines and their Afghan allies captured Mullah Mohammed Chamkani, a former adviser to Mullah Omar. He was arrested during a raid on a Taliban hideout near Kandhar.
But former governor of Kabul -- Mullah Abdul Mannan -- who was also hiding there, managed to escape, Afghan officials said.
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