Maulavi Shmala Khan, the sources from Jalalabad said, can speak fluent Arabic and had been in contact with Arabs during the Jihad times.
"He is leading an eight-member delegation of known commanders and has been assigned to convey to the Arabs and other foreigners to lay down arms or face death", the source said
Eyewitnesses also said that a delegation sent by Corp Commander Jalalabad, Haji Zaman was in the middle of a meeting when fighters from Hazrat Ali's group broke the ceasefire and attacked the Arabs, holed up in the Melawa mountains, a source close to Commander Haji Zaman informed.
"Our people had to abandon the negotiations and return to Jalalabad, because Comander Hazrat Ali showed no respect to the promise given to the surrendering Arabs by Haji Zaman", a close aide of Haji Zaman said on condition of anonymity.
Afghan leaders part of the ruling Eastern Shoora said that Commander Hazrat Ali is angry with the Arabs because they invited Haji Zaman for talks rather than giving him the opportunity to negotiate the surrender.
It was learnt that Governor Nangarhar, Haji Qadeer had to send a peace delegation to both sides to refrain from attacking each other at this stage.
"We believe that the number of these Arabs holed up in the Melawa mountains is from 400 to 500. And the number of American troops part of the operation against these foreign nationals will be about 50. The Americans are dressed like Afghans and they are not in their army uniform", Governor Nangarhar, Haji Qadeer told BBC Urdu service.
The two main demands of the Arabs holed up in Tora Boora, Arab sources said, were that they will surrender arms in presence of a UN representative and that they will conduct a survey about the nationality of resisting foreigners to ask for the presence of diplomats belonging to that particular country, when their nationals decides to surrender.
"They (Arabs) repeatedly mentioned the Qala-e-Jangi massacre and are afraid," the source said.
