ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani police have arrested a former member of parliament for his alleged involvement in the beheading of a Polish engineer by Taliban militants in February, his brother and an aide said on Sunday.
Shah Abdul Aziz, a cleric and former lawmaker from an Islamist party, was apprehended after the main person accused in the case, a militant named Attaullah Khan, told police he had killed geologist Piotr Stanczak on Aziz's orders, his brother said.
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