UN removes five Taliban from blacklist

[BATMAN]

UN removes five Taliban from blacklist

UNITED NATIONS: Five Taliban members, including a former Afghan ambassador to the UN, have been taken off a UN sanctions terrorism list, Austria’s UN mission said on Friday.

The move followed a review of the list of Taliban and al Qaeda members maintained by a UN Security Council committee. Two of the five were delisted because they were dead, a UN diplomat said.

Diplomats identified the five as former UN ambassador Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad Awrang, author of ‘My Life With The Taliban’, Abdul Salam Zaeef, Abdul Satar Paktin, and two members described as “deceased”, Abdul Samad Khaksar and Muhammad Islam Mohammadi.

Austria chairs the UN Security Council panel that maintains a blacklist of individuals and entities linked to al Qaeda and the Taliban.

Individuals on the UN sanctions list, which until now included 137 Afghan nationals, are subject to asset freezes, a travel ban and an arms embargo. Diplomats said Afghan President Karzai had been seeking the delisting of about a dozen Taliban, either because they had joined the government side or because they were dead. agencies

 

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Afghanistan frees more suspected Taliban

* Karzai’s office says 28 suspected Taliban prisoners released as peace offering
* Pledges 45 more inmates will be released after case reviews

KABUL: Afghanistan has freed a second group of suspected Taliban prisoners in a peace offering to the insurgency after a review of their cases, President Hamid Karzai’s office said on Monday.

The release of 28 prisoners from various detention centres came a month after an initial 14 others were let go from US and Afghan jails in the wake of a peace jirga, in June that recommended talks between the government and the Taliban.

The jirga of tribal leaders and other senior figures approved a Karzai plan to reach a peace deal with Taliban moderates, who have helped stage an increasingly violent insurgency since being overthrown in 2001.

Karzai’s office, quoting the Afghan justice minister, pledged to soon free 45 more inmates after case reviews.

The jirga also called for the removal of names of militant leaders from the UN blacklists, as well as peace talks with those who renounced violence.

There was no immediate comment from the Taliban about the latest releases, but the militant group has repeatedly dismissed all peace overtures, saying it will continue to fight until all foreign forces have left the country.

Hundreds of suspected insurgent prisoners without access to lawyers have been languishing in jails run by international and Afghan forces for years.

While Karzai’s order to review cases, based on the jirga’s proposals, referred only to roughly 15,000 detainees in Afghan jails, the US military has said the review would also apply to Afghans in US military prisons.

Since January, 114 prisoners have been released from Bagram under new detention review boards set up by Washington last year allowing detainees to contest their incarceration. reuters

 

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Karzai to ask UN to trim Taliban blacklist: report

WASHINGTON: Afghan President Hamid Karzai plans to ask the UN to remove as many as 50 former Taliban members from a UN blacklist, The Washington Post reported on Monday. At least five of those named on the sanction list are former Taliban officials who now serve in parliament or privately mediate between the Afghan government and the insurgents. A senior Afghan official said Karzai would request that 30 to 50 names be de-listed to “remove all those Taliban who are not part of al Qaeda and are not terrorists,” US special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke, met with UN officials on Tuesday to press them to move forward on the de-listing process, The Washington Post reported. The UN Security Council is reviewing a list of 137 names... some people could be removed and others added, UN envoy to Afghanistan Staffan de Mistura said on Monday. agencies

 

[True_Pakistan_Zindabad]

The whole time they are bargaining and bartering with the Taliban then they say that Pakistan is behind them.

 

[somebozo]

More chilli for Indian arse!
The return of taliban to afghanistan!

 

[BATMAN]

All attrocities on Pakhtoons during US occupation was a joint venture of northern alliance army ANA and RAW.
Pakhtoons are kept in state and foreign states jails like animals and without judicial trials.
Pakhtoons need to kick indians out of Afghanistan and drive norhtern alliance criminals to north pole.

 

[True_Pakistan_Zindabad]

People like Rashid Dostum who sided with the Soviets and was killing Afghan women and children in early morning raids on villages and then suddenly switched sides to escape death is now self righteously allowed to distinguish who is Taliban and who is Afghan.

 

[BATMAN]

Rashid dostam was made commander in ANA and later he handed over many Pakhtoon children to RAW officials to be biologicaly modified as sucide bombers.

He also spearheaded the organ trade which eventually extended to Pakistan tribal areas until this mafia was exposed by a patroling team of Pak army.

 

[mjnaushad]

So now they are good taliban?????

 

[Patriot]

Of course he won't be criticized for dealing with Talibans.

 

[BATMAN]

So now they are good taliban?????

Look at UN how conviniently they can putup and putoff, any one on terrorist status.

Do we have rules?

Can we request to put JUD off the terrorist list? at least their is no proof against them!

 

[EgO Boy]

Start growing beard guys u never know.

And to ladies God help you.

 

[mjnaushad]

Look at UN how conviniently they can putup and putoff, any one on terrorist status.

Do we have rules?

Can we request to put JUD off the terrorist list? at least their is no proof against them!

Whatever serve purpose of west.......Remember the news of Considering of putting TTP in terrorist list. IT wasn't in terrorist in last 8 years....They put it just now. After attack on US troops.

 

[BATMAN]

Whatever serve purpose of west.......Remember the news of Considering of putting TTP in terrorist list. IT wasn't in terrorist in last 8 years....They put it just now. After attack on US troops.

Yes i remember...... It is all due to criminal silence of PPP (pakistan partition party) govt.
All of what Karzai is doing for Afghanistan.... Zardari is suppose to do for Pakistan but he seems to be hiding in depths of President house.

 

[Rank]

abhe aur b bara kuch remove karayge ye UN! agay agay dekhtay jaoo... kutay wali jo horahe hey is NATO ke Afghanistan may!