A senior Taliban leader in Doha, the group’s political headquarters, said vehicles had been sent to an area near Bagram Prison to fetch the freed fighters. However, a government source said any release was likely not to be in the coming days, but could be weeks away. The issue has become one of the biggest sticking points in any progress toward peace, complicated further by differing wording of documents between the United States and the Taliban and the United States and the Afghan government. The Taliban leader in Doha also confirmed the group had finalised arrangements for the release of 1,000 prisoners held by them, adding that they had shifted all prisoners to safe locations in Afghanistan. An official Taliban spokesman said he could not comment as he had yet to be informed of the plans.

Source: bd News24 March 10, 2020 09:56 UTC