KABUL, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- Afghanistan's law enforcing agencies have nabbed a local leader of Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province, National Security Directorate (NSD) said on Monday.

    "Hajji Gulalai Agha, who was the commander of a terrorist group of Taliban militants in Kandahar province and had organized several terrorist attacks in the past, was captured three or four days ago," an official at the press department of NSD read out a statement to Xinhua but declined to give his name.

    The ring leader, according to the official, had assassinated several people including Syed Imam, Deputy to Religious Council of Kandahar province, over the past couple of years.

    Gulalai, he added, was planning to assassinate Assadullah Khalid the incumbent governor of Kandahar province.

    Taliban militants have yet to make any comment on it.