April 9 (The Killid Group) – The Afghan government will release a hundred more Taliban prisoners a day after it freed the first batch of the group’s inmates, said officials in the National Security Council.
The spokesperson for the National Security Council, Javid Faisal said in a recent tweet that another hundred Taliban prisoners will be released today based on their age, health conditions, and lengths of remaining sentence.
The Afghan government on Wednesday released 100 Taliban prisoners following a presidential decree, marking the start of 5,000 Taliban inmates to be freed.
However, earlier this week, the Taliban insurgents pulled their technical team out of talks blaming the Afghan government for the delay and needlessly wasting time.
Afghan officials, however, have blamed insurgents for insisting upon release of 15 notorious Taliban commanders convicted for large scale attacks, and were believed to be a serious security threat.
But Suhail Saheen, issued a denial saying that under the U.S.-Taliban pact signed on 29th of February, those 15 prisoners were also among 5,000 jailed Taliban to be freed in exchange for 1,000 Afghan prisoners.
Under the accord, the United States and the Taliban are committed to work expeditiously to release combat and political prisoners as a confidence-building measure, with the coordination and approval of all relevant sides.
The agreement calls for the release of up to 5,000 jailed Taliban prisoners who were set to be released in exchange for up to 1,000 Afghan government captives by March 10, but the process was delayed due to several reasons.
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