Ghani said Anas Haqqani and Taliban commanders Haji Mali Khan and Hafiz Rashid were being released. Afghanistan to swap Taliban militants for American, Australian captives https://t.co/o8wqXBZuCG pic.twitter.com/XME7yHgkSz — Reuters (@Reuters) November 12, 2019The Haqqani network has in recent years carried large-scale militant attack on civilians. Anas Haqqani is the younger brother of Sirajuddin Haqqani, who is second-in-command in the Afghan Taliban hierarchy and leads the Haqqani network, considered to the deadliest faction of the Afghan Taliban. The Taliban had kidnapped US citizen Kevin King and an Australian Timothy Weeks, both professors, in August 2016 from the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul. According to Afghan officials, the next round of talks between the Taliban and Afghan representatives is slated for this month in Beijing.

Source: Dhaka Tribune November 12, 2019 10:15 UTC