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BAMIYAN, Afghanistan, Feb 6 (AFP) - Scores of Pakistani and Afghan Taliban fighters have been arrested in Kabul and central Bamiyan province in the past month, officials and reports said Wednesday.

A spokesman for Bamiyan strongman Karim Khalili said 120 were arrested in Bamiyan about a month ago, and the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) reported 21 arrested Wednesday in Kabul.

"The Americans arrested 120 people -- Afghan and Pakistani fighters with the Taliban, and a small number of al-Qaeda near Tala Wa Barfak," Khalili's secretary Mohammed Arif said.

He could not give an exact date, but said Khalili's forces assisted in the arrests and the prisoners were taken to the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif.

The Pakistan-based AIP said security forces arrested 17 Afghans and four Pakistanis in Kabul Wednesday.

The 21 had been hiding in the capital since the fall of the Taliban last November, the report said without giving further details.

On January 19, six alleged members of the al-Qaeda network were arrested in Kabul while trying to get from northern Baghlan province to Kandahar in the south, police said. 

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