Taliban troops have captured a foreigner in southern Afghanistan and were questioning him in the spiritual capital of Kandahar.
A Taliban spokesman said the man was caught in Spin Boldak, a town just over the border from the frontier town of Chaman near Quetta in southwestern Pakistan, the Afghan Islamic Press in Pakistan reported.
There was some confusion over his identity, with one AIP source in the area saying he was believed to be a United States citizen named Mirza Ayub.
The Taliban spokesman said he told them he was a journalist who had come to the area to help Afghan refugees.
The fundamentalist Islamic Taliban are already holding two other journalists, one from France and the other from Japan, who entered the country despite Kabul's ban on foreign reporters at the time.