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Pakistan to release Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Baradar
September 10, 2013
Pakistan today said it has decided "in principle" to free Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the former deputy commander of the Afghan Taliban, to facilitate the peace process in war-torn Afghanistan.
Foreign Office spokesman Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry said Baradar's release is part of efforts to "help promote the Afghan peace process".
Baradar will be released at an "appropriate time," Chaudhry was quoted as saying by state-run Radio Pakistan.