[KhaamaPress] Tue 9:54am - Pakistain has reportedly released a former senior Taliban...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
official from the jail as efforts are underway to persuade the group to participate in peace talks.
Two Taliban officials have confirmed to News Agency that Dare Not be Named that Abdul Samad Sani, who served as the Afghan Central Bank governor during the turbans’ rule in the late 1990s, has been released from the jail.
The officials have also confirmed that a lower-ranking commander named Salahuddin has also been released.
The Pak government officials have not commented in this regard so far.
This comes as another senior Taliban leader, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, was released from the jail in Pakistain few days ago.
Reports regarding the release of Abdul Samad Sani emerge at a time when efforts are underway to revive Afghan peace talks.
The U.S. Special Adviser for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad is due to visit Pakistain, Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi..., and United Arab Emirates as part of the ongoing efforts for Afghan reconciliation.