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Pakistan 'to free Taliban's Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar'
Pakistan is to release senior Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in a bid to help the Afghan peace process, reports say.
The timing of his release is not yet clear, but "should be within a month", a senior adviser to the Pakistani prime minister told Reuters.
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Mullah Baradar is one of the four men who founded the Taliban movement in Afghanistan in 1994.
He went on to become a linchpin of the insurgency after the Taliban were toppled by the US-led invasion in 2001.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24030879
The timing of his release is not yet clear, but "should be within a month", a senior adviser to the Pakistani prime minister told Reuters.
...
Mullah Baradar is one of the four men who founded the Taliban movement in Afghanistan in 1994.
He went on to become a linchpin of the insurgency after the Taliban were toppled by the US-led invasion in 2001.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24030879
Meanwhile:
Two roadside bomb attacks 'kill 11 Afghan civilians'
At least 11 people have been killed in a series of roadside bomb attacks targeting buses across Afghanistan, officials have told the BBC.
Seven people died, including three children, after an improvised explosive device (IED) hit a bus passing through the southern province of Ghazni.
A Ghazni governor spokesman said 17 others were injured, seven critically.
Separately, one woman and four men were killed in Helmand's Musa Qala district after their car hit a roadside bomb.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24036962
At least 11 people have been killed in a series of roadside bomb attacks targeting buses across Afghanistan, officials have told the BBC.
Seven people died, including three children, after an improvised explosive device (IED) hit a bus passing through the southern province of Ghazni.
A Ghazni governor spokesman said 17 others were injured, seven critically.
Separately, one woman and four men were killed in Helmand's Musa Qala district after their car hit a roadside bomb.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24036962