A top Afghan Taliban commander was shot and captured by Pakistani authorities on Monday in a fighting between Taliban militia and U.S. and NATO forces in southwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border.

Mullah Mansoor Dadullah, the brother of Mullah Dadullah the slain Taliban leader who was killed last May, was arrested along with four other rebels near the Gaddal post in Qila Saifullah, in southwestern Baluchistan province, according to provincial police chief Saud Gohar.

Gohar said that Dadullah was wounded and arrested Monday morning, AFP reports.

“He resisted when our men launched an operation. We had reports of his presence from intelligence sources... he was hiding in a house in the village. Four others were also arrested including three guards of Dadullah," he added.

Lt. Col. Baseer Haider Malik said that the group was trying to enter Pakistan from Afghanistan.

One of them was killed and Daddullah was taken to Quetta along with the other four militants, said Javeed Iqbal Cheema, Interior Ministry spokesman, CNN informs.

Afghan defense ministry spokesman General Mohammad Zahir Azimi in Kabul received well the news of his arrest.

Dadullah’s arrest was not yet confirmed by the Taliban center.

This event comes a day after US Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned that the Islamabad government is threatened by Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants.

Dadullah succeeded his brother, Mullah, after he was killed in Afghanistan in May 2007.

Zabihullah Mujahed, a Taliban spokesman, said that he was among the five Taliban who were freed last year in May in exchange of an Italian journalist, Daniele Mastrogicomo, who was kidnapped.

This was never confirmed by the Afghan government, who didn’t say who were those released.

Taliban militia ruled from 1996 to 2001 Afghanistan and offered haven to Osama bin Laden, who was behind the September 11 attacks in the United States.

Due to the invasion of the U.S. in October 2001 in Afghanistan the Taliban was driven out from Afghanistan but ever since then they have regrouped and put up resistance against the NATO forces.