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| Baradars Extradition Likely to Happen |
| 2010-07-01 |
| [Quqnoos] Pakistan indicated on Tuesday it might extradite Mullah Baradar to Afghanistan in a bid to help Kabul broker a deal with militants, reports said "We are working with Afghanistan's government to come up with a mutually acceptable arrangement for Mullah Baradar's extradition," a security official said. Afghanistan had recently made a renewed call for extradition of Baradar and other Taliban commanders detained in Pakistan. Moreover, this time round there is as yet no legal hurdle in Baradar's extradition. A challenge to his extradition was thrown out by the Lahore High Court in May. The planned extradition would form part of efforts by Pakistan to help the Afghan government broker a peace deal with insurgents, an official said. President Hamid Karzai's deputy-spokesman Hamid Elmi also said in a radio interview and the interior ministers of both countries had held exclusive talks on the issue. "They are ready to solve this issue and hand (Baradar) over to Afghanistan." Taliban second-in-command Mullah Baradar's arrest in a joint operation by Pakistani and American intelligence services in February from Karachi was described as a major coup in their counter-insurgency collaboration. |
| Posted by:Fred |