Some people claiming to be members of the NDS called reporters in Pakistan and told them they arrested Faqir Muhammad along with five other militants. They said Faqir Muhammad was on his way to the Khyber Agency in Pakistan from the Kunar province, when captured on Monday.
militant factions operating in the seven tribal regions, Frontier Regions (FRs) and settled districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa gathered in South Waziristan and formed their joint organisation, the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Baitullah Mehsud was made its central Ameer or head while Faqir Muhammad
Senior Pakistani and Afghan Taliban did not believe Afghan security would capture him. They said like a few other senior Pakistani Taliban based in Kunar province, Faqir Muhammad was in the good books of the Afghan security agencies and was often called by the Afghan authorities for meetings there.
He said Faqir Muhammad had developed serious differences with the TTP leadership and they replaced him with commander Dadullah, who died in a US drone attack on August 25, 2012 in Sheegal Darra of Kunar province. The Taliban later appointed commander Said Muhammad as the leader of the Bajaur Taliban
