Pakistan on Saturday released a senior Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar to aid the peace process with Afghanistan.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai had demanded Baradar's release during his visit to Pakistan late last month. Pakistan had earlier announced that Mullah Baradar would not be handed over to the Afghan government and he would be free to go anywhere.
Baradar, arrested in February 2010, is one of the founding members of the Taliban and had held several top military positions when the Taliban was in power in Kabul. He had served as deputy defence minister, corps commander Kabul and chief of military unit in Kandahar.
An All Parties Conference (APC) in Islamabad in September 2013 collectively suggested the start of talks with the Taliban to curtail militancy, i.e. ‘white-flag’ talks. This was not the first time, earlier, two APCs had attempted using anti-America policy to persuade extremists, thinking the Taliban would be pleased but all in vain, and besides ended up doing nothing against America.
Following the army’s declaration of vacating Swat-Malakand-Dir, the Taliban have killed a major general and a lieutenant colonel there.
The army has already tried its popular anti-Americanism approach in submission to its inner sentiment, but couldn’t do without the fund of $60 million a month received from the US-led Coalition Support Fund for use in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), while unnecessarily distressing a government, it considered was pro-America and pro-India.
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