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MINGORA: Sixty militants, a Taliban commander among them, surrendered themselves to security forces at the Kanju airport in Swat valley on Thursday.
Colonel Akhtar, a spokesman for the Swat media centre, said that Akbar Zada, the Taliban commander of Koza Bandai in Matta tehsil, was among the 60 insurgents who surrendered at the airport. (News agencies identified the commander as Khurshid Khan).
Akbar Zada is said to be closely related to hard-line cleric and chief of Swat Taliban Maulana Fazlullah.
An army spokesman said the arrested militants would face cases filed against them by local people.