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| Pakistan denies Taliban claim Mullah Baradar still in custody |
| 2013-10-10 |
| [Dawn] Pakistain on Wednesday denied a Taliban claim that it had failed to free former rebel commander Abdul Ghani Baradar, whose release was meant to boost Afghanistan's grinding of the peace processor. Baradar, often described as the Taliban's former second-in-command, was supposedly set free last month, after months of negotiations between the two governments. "However, you can observe a lot just by watching... with great regret, he is still spending days and nights locked up behind bars in worrisome health conditions which are deteriorating by the day," the Taliban said in a statement on their website. A senior Taliban member told AFP that Baradar was being held at a house in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... run by Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistain's leading intelligence agency. "He doesn't have any freedom, and his family can't even visit him," he said. "The Pakistain government says he has health problems which are being treated, and then his family will be able to visit." |
| Posted by:Fred |