ISLAMABAD (Dispatches) -- The U.S. envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke casts doubt on Islamabad's commitment to fighting the Afghan Taliban over its refusal to turn over a recently captured Taliban leader to the Americans.

“I'm an agnostic at this point as to whether this was a policy change
[by Islamabad] or a serendipitous collection of discreet events,"" he said in an interview with the Financial Times published Friday.
He made the comment in connection with Pakistan's recent arrest of the Afghan Taliban's operational commander Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, questioning whether Pakistan has truly turned decisively against the Afghan Taliban, its own creation, in collusion with the U.S. and Saudi Arabia.
He said he was not able to say whether relations between the U.S. and Pakistan had turned a corner after Baradar's arrest.
Holbrooke refused to discuss whether the U.S. was receiving good intelligence from the joint interrogation of Mullah Baradar, though he claimed that he had ""no Problem"" with the Lahore High Court's denial of a U.S. request to transfer the Taliban figure to Afghanistan.
The American FBI chief had sought permission from Islamabad for the interrogation of Mullah Baradar.
Earlier, American and Pakistani agents captured Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in Karachi on February 8, 2010.
----Taliban leader killed
Maulvi Faqir Mohammed, a top Tehrik-e-Taliban (Pakistani Taliban) commander is believed to have been killed in airstrikes, officials said Saturday.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik said authorities had not identified the bodies of Mohammed or his fellow commander Qari Ziaur Rehman, but all the militants hiding at the site were killed after the helicopter gunships were dispatched on “real-time” intelligence.
Pakistani Taliban spokesman could not immediately be reached for comment.
Meanwhile, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani assured a five-year-old kidnapped British boy Sahil Saeed’s father Saturday and directed police to provide security to the boy’s family.
Robbers snatched Saeed while he was visiting his grandmother’s house in the town of Jhelum about 100 km south of Islamabad on Thursday, stealing jewellery and cash, and demanding $120,000 ransom.
The gunmen stormed into the house armed with guns and grenades, subjecting the family to a six-hour ordeal, while Sahil and his Pakistani father were preparing to get a taxi to the airport and fly home. Police arrested the taxi driver booked to take them to the airport.
Photo: Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan. (Photo: AP)