Source: Dawn.Com
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan released its most senior Afghan Taliban detainee, Abdul Ghani Baradar on Saturday, a senior official of the interior ministry told AFP.
“Yes Baradar has been released,” Omar Hamid, a spokesman for interior ministry told AFP, without elaborating.
In order to further facilitate the Afghan reconciliation process, the detained Taliban leader, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, would be released on 21 September 2013, the Foreign Ministry had said in a statement issued on Friday.
Moreover, Pakistan’s top official on foreign affairs and national security Sartaj Aziz had earlier said that Baradar would be released as soon as this month.
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