KABUL - Afghanistan's High Peace Council is in discussions with Pakistan on transferring Taliban leaders from Pakistan's prisons into Afghanistan.
Serious negotiations are underway between the Council and Pakistani officials to have Afghan nationals who are in the Taliban transferred into Afghan prisons, "although our prisons face some challenges", High Peace Council Deputy Head Ataullah Lodin said.

The idea was partly borne from the US planning to transfer some Taliban prisoners from Guantanamo to Afghanistan, he said.
The government should pave the way to have these prisoners inside the country, although Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence may not cooperate, Lodin added.

"Past experience has demonstrated that Pakistan has never worked to help solve Afghanistan's problems, it has never been honest with Afghanistan and the ISI may decide it will not give the prisoners," he said.

Meanwhile, Chairman of the President's High Board of Judiciary Nasrullah Stanikzai said the Afghan forces were able to keep track of and protect Taliban leaders inside the country.

"Afghanistan must consider it a citizen's right, including for prisoners, to have their rights observed such as having access to an attorney," he said. (Tolo News)