KABUL – Pakistan has released another key Afghan Taliban leader.
As per the media report, Mullah Abdul Samad Sani– in charge of the group’sinsurgency has been released, Afghan media said on Monday.
Sani was captured by Pakistani security forces two years back soon afterTaliban’s supreme leader Mullah Mansour was killed in a drone strike inBalochistan province of Pakistan.
A source close to the Taliban said Mullah Sani was released on Monday byPakistani authorities and reunited with his family in Quetta, Balochistan’scapital city.
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During the Taliban’s regime, Sani served as head of the Kandahar Bank andpolice chief of Kandahar province.
During the Jihad against the former Soviet Union, Sani served in MaulviMohammad Nabi and Maulvi Khali’s parties.
