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Pak Taliban denies demanding release of 50 militants

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ANI Islamabad

Pakistani Taliban has denied claims their chief Hakimullah Mehsud has demanded release of 50 militants detained in various prisons across the country.

Javed Ibrahim Paracha, a former member of the National Assembly, had claimed that the chief of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) had named 50 Taliban prisoners for their release on phone.

According to Dawn News, he said that prisoners belonging to banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), Sipah-i-Sahaba, a former proscribed sectarian militant group, and the TTP were included in the list.

Paracha, who later visited Adiala Jail and met Taliban prisoners, had informed the media that a procedure for the militants' release was under consideration, the report added.

 

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First Published: Sep 20 2013 | 10:48 AM IST

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