KABUL (Pajhwok) Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi on Monday described the swapping of Bashar Noorzai with an American citizen Mark Frerichs in a prisoner exchange ‘a new chapter in relations with the US.’
The two prisoners were exchanged at the Kabul airport, Muttaqi told a news conference here, insisting the Taliban were ready to solve problems by negotiation with all, including the United States.
Flanked by Bashar Noorzai, a businessmen linked to the Islamic Emirate, the foreign minister said Noorzai spent 17 and a half years in the Guantanamo Bay prison of the United States and was released as . . .
