We previously noted that Mullah Salam, the Taliban’s “shadow governor” in Kunduz province, was arrested inside Pakistan. Dexter Filkins reports that another shadow governor, Mullah Mir Mohammed of Baghlan province, is also in Pakistani custody.

Salam and Mohammed were known as two of the Taliban’s most brutal enforcers in northern Afghanistan, and close confidants of Mullah Baradar, the top Taliban commander arrested in a joint CIA/ISI operation earlier this week.

A U.S. official says the latest arrests did not come as a result of intelligence gleaned from Baradar — though Baradar is said to be providing “a wealth of information on the Taliban’s operations.”