Taliban reported the group had released 37 detainees of the Afghan security forces in Takhar and Kunduz provinces.

Today, a total of 37 soldiers and policemen (20 in Takhar and 17 in Kunduz provinces) were released from prisons of the Taliban and sent to their families after they were given financial help for transportation fare, Taliban’s Political Office Spokesman Suhail Shaheen said on his twitter.

Release of prisoners is the key condition for the launch of intra-Afghan negotiations. Based on US-Taliban agreement in Doha, the Taliban has to release the entire 1,000 Afghan inmates kept in the group’s custody. Elsewhere, the Afghan government should also release the entire 5,000 Taliban prisoners. It has so far released 4,400 prisoners but refuses to release the remaining 600 others, calling them dangerous criminals.

Arezo News – Salimi