A file photo of Mullah Baradar. PHOTO: NYT/FILE
"The remaining detainees, we are coordinating, and they will be released subsequently," Jilani said at a news conference in Abu Dhabi.
Asked if the former Taliban number 2 Baradar would be among those to be released, he said: "The aim is to release all," without elaborating further.
Pakistan, in a bid to support peace and reconciliation process in Afghanistan and answering requests of the Afghan government and the high peace council, agreed to release a number of high profile Taliban detainees in November 2012.
Pakistan released around 26 Taliban leaders since then.
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Now our liberals will keep a mum because America wants them to be released.
Pakistan should release and ensure that they do not come back to Pakistan again.
@Truth: ISI already has CIA tags attached to their legs..
If we cannot convict them (the courts release them all) then how could we keep them forever? In addition most of the rightwing parties want to be soft on Taliban and call them Jihadists. Let us release them all, apologize to them and hope they would not kill another 50 thousand Pakistani civilians! The Afghan Taliban should not be our headache and their govt should deal with them. We have our own home grown KPK and Punjabi Taliban.
Will be released with the ISI security tag attached to their legs.
atleast get Dr Aafia released and debt waived in return . do some good for country in 5 years
Military giving signal that they are the one who decide Pakistan's foreign policy !!! Even if it means putting Pakistan into deeper quagmire and destroy us as a nation!!
This latest move by the establishment proves that Pakistan will sell their allies and enemies for a price. Musharraf sold them to the Americans when the gauntlet came down on him and now they are selling them once again.
Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef said this about the ISI in his book, My Life With The Taliban when he was being handed over to US authorities by the ISI. "In the twenty-first century there aren’t many places left where you can still buy and sell people, but Pakistan remains a hub for this trade."
Big mistake...
seriously??? i mean these taliban are killing us every single day... and we are out there releasing them left right and center .. do our lawmakers even think before they make these kind of absurd judgements??
Good.. Now they can blow up more stuff..
release them and then what? not worth trusting them... not at all...
welldone... but why all you fought last 12 years costing bilions of $ and millions of lives?? and still if you release them to stabilize afghanistan than what you are afraid of to negotiate to people on pak side of border??/
Imran Khan was right!