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Afghan Officials Met Key Taliban Prisoner
An Afghan government delegation met with one of the Taliban's top military commanders, Mullah Ghani Bradar, in a Pak prison, Afghanistan's National Security Advisor, Ragin Spanta, told TOLOnews on Sunday.Mr Spanta said he himself did not meet with Mullah Bradar. The meeting aimed to seek Mullah Bradar's opinion about peace talks and to decide whether, if he were released, he could play a role in convincing the Taliban to enter into talks. "Several Afghan officials met Mullah Ghani Bradar in a Pak prison but I never met him myself," Spanta said in a telephone interview. Pakistain's interior minister, Rehman Malik Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship. , confirmed the meeting to Rooters, saying his government will do anything possible to bring peace and stability to Afghanistan. "They had access at the required and appropriate level," Mr Malik told Rooters. "We are fully co-operating with Afghanistan and whatever they are asking for the grinding of the peace processor, for developing peace in Afghanistan, we are giving every kind of help." One of the Taliban's most important conditions of starting peace talks is the release of prisoners from the prison in Guantanamo Bay. Mullah Bradar, who was captured in 2009 in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... in Pakistain, may be released in an effort to bring the Taliban to the peace table. Posted by: trailing wife 2012-08-13 |
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