![]() He and other Afghan officials also pointed out that Pakistan had forwarded the same argument when it refused to hand over Afghan Taliban leaders to Afghanistan after deciding to release 26 of them late last year. ![]() Eyebrows were raised in Pakistan because the Afghan foreign ministry spokesman, Janan Musazai, had earlier confirmed his arrest and rejected Islamabad’s demand that Faqir Mohammad be handed over to it by arguing that there was no extradition treaty between the two countries. However, soon after, Afghanistan’s ambassador in Pakistan, Mohammad Umer Daudzai, stepped in and started expressing doubts about the news by claiming that it was still being ascertained if the captured man was, indeed, Faqir Mohammad. It so happened that the Afghan government initially gleefully announced the arrest of Pakistani Taliban commander Maulvi Faqir Mohammad and prompted Pakistan to demand his extradition. Yet another issue was recently added to the list of unresolved disputes between Afghanistan and Pakistan, when the governments in Kabul and Islamabad refused to cooperate with each other on the release and extradition of militants in their custody.
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