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| Pakistan 'to free Taliban's Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar' | Pakistan 'to free Taliban's Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar' |
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| Pakistan is to release senior Afghan Taliban leader, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, in a bid to help the Afghan peace process, reports say. | Pakistan is to release senior Afghan Taliban leader, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, in a bid to help the Afghan peace process, reports say. |
| The timing of his release is not yet clear, but "should be within a month", a senior advisor to the Pakistani prime minister told Reuters. | The timing of his release is not yet clear, but "should be within a month", a senior advisor to the Pakistani prime minister told Reuters. |
| Mullah Baradar was captured in the Pakistani city of Karachi in 2007. | Mullah Baradar was captured in the Pakistani city of Karachi in 2007. |
| It was seen as a significant coup for the American CIA and the Pakistani intelligence service. | |
| "In principle, we have agreed to release him. The timing is being discussed. It should be very soon... I think within this month," Sartaj Aziz, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's adviser on foreign affairs, told Reuters. | |
| But Mr Aziz said that Mullah Baradar would not be handed over to Afghanistan directly as some in Kabul wanted. | |
| He said that instead he would be released in Pakistan. | |
| Mullah Baradar is one of the four men who founded the Taliban movement in Afghanistan in 1994. | |
| He went on to become a linchpin of the insurgency after the Taliban were toppled by the US-led invasion in 2001. |