KARACHI: A Taliban commander has been arrested from Karachi, police said on Saturday.

SSP CID Umar Shahid Hayat has said that Ismail Mehsud, brother of Taliban commander Khalid Wahab Mehsud has been arrested from Steel Town area of Karachi.Ismail Mehsud has Rs two million bounty on his head.

According to police, Ismail Mehsud has been brother of Tehrik-e-Taliban operative Khalid Wahab for which Rs 10 million head money has been announced. Khalid Wahab said to be the mastermind of the attack at welcome parade of Benazir Bhutto in Karachi on October 18, 2007.

Police have transferred Ismail Mehsud to an undisclosed place for questioning.

The city police in another raid arrested another Tehrik-e-Taliban commander Ghani Subhan alias Khan Dada with two accomplices and on their indication captured bombs, detonators, circuits and other material from a bomb making laboratory.

The accused were arrested from SITE area of Karachi. sources said. The police on indication of the accused conducted raid at a bomb making laboratory in Qaimkhani Colony and captured large quantity of prepared bombs including pipe bombs, bottle bombs, mines, explosives, detonators,  circuits and other material used in bomb making.