Obaidullah was captured by Pakistani security forces in February 2007 in Quetta, Pakistan.[1][6] He was the most senior Taliban official captured since the start of the present war in Afghanistan.[7] The arrest coincided with U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's visit to Afghanistan and Pakistan in late February 2007, but the timing has been reported to be a coincidence rather than a reaction to Cheney's visit.[7]