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Pakistan has freed three more senior Afghan Taliban leaders, taking the number of freed Taliban to nearly fifty in one year, official sources said late Tuesday.
"Yes three more Afghan Taliban leaders have been released," an official source said.
"This is ongoing process as a part of efforts to facilitate reconciliation," the source said.
Another source identified the freed Taliban. They are Mullah Abdul Ahad Jahangirwal, former adviser to Mullah Omar, Mullah Abdul Manan, a former Taliban governor in Helmand and Mullah Younus, a former military commander.
The release came just few days after the government-backed peace negotiators visited Pakistan and met the senior Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar.
Pakistan started the release of Afghan Taliban leaders in November last year to help in the peace process.
In September, Pakistan freed the former Taliban Deputy Chief Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar on the request from Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
Taliban and Baradar family however say he has not yet joined the family.
