KABUL: Pakistan Embassy in Kabul on Sunday said that Pakistan had freed Deputy Chief of Afghan Taliban Mulla Abdul Ghani Baradar, ARY News reported.
The spokesman for the embassy confirmed that another Taliban commander Mulla Abdul Samad Sani was also released.
Sources said the release has been made to make America’s rapprochement process with Taliban possible. The special representative of the United States had requested Pakistan for granting them freedom from jail.
Sources said this would send a positive message to the Afghan Taliban, following which they would be persuaded to participate in peace process.
It is pertinent to mention that Abdul Ghani Baradar was arrested in 2010 from Karachi. He was accused of committing different heinous crimes. He was founding member of Taliban along Mullah Omar and others.
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Earlier this month, Maulana Sami ul Haq excused himself from playing the role of a mediator between the Afghanistan government and Afghan Taliban.
A high-level delegation of the Afghan government had called on the chief of the eponymous faction of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) at Akora Khattak seeking assistance in paving way and arranging peace talks with the Afghan Taliban.
“We regard you as our leader and will acknowledge your any decision in this regard. Kindly, guide us for establishment of peace in Afghanistan,” the Afghan delegation requested him.
They said Maulana Sami was their mentor just like the Afghan Taliban.
The JUI-S leader said it was an issue of global politics and the world powers did not want it to be resolved.
“I cannot burden (my) weak shoulders with such a big responsibility, however, I pray for freedom of Afghanistan and rule of Islam,” he said.
