Pakistan to Release Former Taliban Leader

ISLAMABAD : Pakistan has decided to release a former top Taliban leader in an effort to resolve the conflict in neighboring Afghanistan. The move comes as national leaders in Pakistan agree the government should sit down with Pakistani militants to restore security to the country.

Pakistan Foreign Ministry spokesman Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry on Tuesday announced that Islamabad has decided to release former Afghan Taliban deputy leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar.



The release of Baradar, which spokesman Chaudhry said would take place at an “appropriate time,” is seen as a move to revive stalled talks between the militant group and Afghan representatives to take place in Qatar.

The United States and others stakeholders are pushing hard to bring an end to the prolonged Taliban insurgency in neighboring Afghanistan before international combat forces leave the country by the end of 2014.

Baradar was once the Afghan Taliban’s second-in-command. But Pakistan’s former ambassador to Afghanistan, Rustam Shah Mohmand, cautioned that Baradar lost credibility with the militant group after he was arrested by Pakistani authorities in 2010.

More than 30 Taliban members have been released in Pakistan since last year, in the hope that they will help persuade Afghan militants to end violence and become part of a political reconciliation process in Afghanistan.

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