Twelve Taliban Pakistani prisoners who escaped from a northern jail with the help of a prison guard were recaptured in the capital on Tuesday and will be sent back to jail. The men, all imprisoned for fighting alongside the Taliban against the U.S.-led war in 2001, were found hiding in a house in northern Kabul, said Gen Baba Jan, Kabul’s police chief. The guard was also arrested, along with the owner of the house, Jan told the television station.
| Now Mr. Guard can keep them company, huh? |
About 500 Pakistanis remain in Afghan prisons, mostly in the north. The men recaptured on Tuesday had been held in a particularly notorious jail, called Sheberghan, controlled by northern Afghan warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum. |