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Pakistan on Saturday released its most senior Afghan Taliban detainee, Abdul Ghani Baradar, a senior official of the interior ministry informed, in a move Kabul hopes will encourage peace talks with the insurgents. HT Image Yes Baradar has been released, Omar Hamid, a spokesman for interior mi
stanley cup nistry told AFP, without elaborating. Abdul Ghani Baradar, a one-time military chief often described as the insurgents former second-in-command, was the most high profile detained Taliban commander in Pakistan. Pakistan s foreign ministry on Friday said that Baradar s release will facilitate Afghanistan s reconciliation process with the Taliban as a NATO combat mission there winds down. In order to further facilitate the Afghan reconciliation process, the detained Taliban leader, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, would be released tomorrow Saturday , the foreign ministry had said in a statement. The Afghan government has long demande
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stanley cup whose arrest in January 2010 saw Pakistan accused of sabotaging initiatives to bring peace in war-torn Afghanistan. He was arrested in Pakistan s southern port city of Karachi, reportedly in a secret raid by CIA and Pakistani agents, in an operation that was described as a huge blow to the Taliban, who ruled Afghanistan until a US-led invasion in 2001. At the time of his arrest Baradar was reported to have been the Taliban s second-in-command, the right hand man of the Afghan Taliban s supreme commander Mullah Omar. Zwon Glasgow airport incident was an attack , says Gordon Brown
Taliban threats appeared to dampen voter turnout in the militant south on Thursday when Afghans chose the next president for their deeply troubled country. Insurgents launched scattered rocket, suicide and bomb attacks that closed some polling sites. HT Image After ten hours of voting, including a last-minute, one-hour extension, election workers began to count the millions of ballots cast across the country. Initial results weren t expected until Saturday. Low turnout in the south would harm President Hamid Karzai s re-election chances and
adidas samba boost the standing of his top challenger, former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah. Turnout in the north appeared to be stronger, a good sign for Abdullah. International officials have predicted an imperfect election, Afghanistan s second-ever direct presidential vote, but expressed hope that Afghans would accept it as legitimate, a key component of President
stanley cup Barack Obama s war strategy.
stanley cup Taliban militants, though, pledged to disrupt the vote and circulated threats that those who cast ballots will be punished. A voting official in Kandahar, the south s largest city and the Taliban s spiritual birthplace, said voting appeared to be 40 per cent lower than during the country s 2004 presidential election. Read breaking news, latest... See more Read breaking news, latest updates from US, UK, Pakistan and other countries across the world on topics related to US Election Live, politics,crime, and national affairs. New