Pakistan will consider handing over Taliban spokesman Abdul Latif Hakimi to Afghanistan if the Afghan government makes a formal request, the Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. Afghan President Hamid Karzai told France's LCI television during a visit to France on Wednesday that his country would seek Hakimi's extradition, who Karzai said was responsible for many atrocities in Afghanistan. "We have seen the reports in the newspapers but we have not formally received a request from Afghanistan for Hakimi's extradition," said Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam. "When we will receive the request, we will consider it," she said. Afghan Defence Minister Abdur Rahim Wardak praised Pakistan for what he described as renewed security cooperation. "Pakistan has increased its efforts and Hakimi's arrest is also the result of that cooperation," he told Reuters. "We hope that such arrests continue for terrorism is our common enemy."