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Paks free two brothers of Taliban leader
The Pakistan government has freed two brothers of a former member of the Taliban leadership council as part of a prisoner exchange agreement with militants in the troubled Waziristan tribal region.

A Peshawar-based intelligence official confided to Pajhwok Afghan News on Sunday that Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Usmani's brothers, Abdul Wafa and Abdul Qadeer, walked out of the infamous Dera Ismail Khan prison last night. The two had been arrested in 2005 from Zhob town of the southeastern Balochistan province on the charge of having links to al-Qaeda and Taliban extremists.

They were released under a swap deal reached between the government and local Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud.
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Muhammad Ghazi Khan, a Dera Ismail Khan journalist, confirmed to Pajhwok by phone the slain militant commanders brothers were set free Saturday night. Wafa and Qadir left for Quetta following their release, he revealed. The journalist linked their release to the controversial government-Mehsud agreement on prisoners exchange.

Mullah Usmani, a close confidant of Mullah Muhammad Omar, had been the Kandahar corps commander and Balkh police chief during the Taliban regime. He was also a member of the Taliban leadership council before being zapped eliminated in a December 2006 airstrike by the US-led Coalition in the lawless Helmand province.
Posted by: Seafarious 2007-11-27
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