KABUL: Majority of the top leaders of the Afghan Taliban  have returned from Pakistan.The provincial police chief of southern Kandahar province Gen. Abdul Raziq informed the return of the Taliban leaders as he was speaking to reporters in Kandahar late on Saturday, Khaama press has reported.

Gen. Raziq further added that family members of Mullah Omar and at least fifteen top leaders of the group have returned to Kandahar.

Without providing further information regarding the identities of the returnees, Gen. Raziq said that high ranking leaders of the group are among those who have returned and some of them have previously served as governors and in other high posts when Taliban regime was in power.

In the meantime, Gen. Raziq said the Taliban leaders and family members of Mullah Omar were encouraged by the local officials in Kandahar to return and rejected any other party’s involvement in the process.

The Taliban group has not commented regarding the report so far.