Pakistan has released 19 non-combatant Taliban members as a goodwill gesture for bolstering the peace process with the group.
A spokesman for the interior ministry said the prisoners released were non-combatant Taliban belonging to the Mehsud tribe.
According to Dawn News, an official said that those released were local people who had been investigated by the political administration and declared innocent.
Later, the interior ministry came up with some information about the freed Taliban, but did not release their names, the report added.