Prisoners

KABUL militants in its custody “in return for money” from the US, some Kabul-based political commentators alleged on Saturday. Pakistan plans to release all Taliban

KABUL): Amid concerns over human rights violations and torture, the US military has halted transferring detainees to some Afghan prisons, a move that may fuel

KABUL Chairman Salahuddin Rabbani said on Saturday. Addressing a press conference following a visit to Islamabad last week, Rabbani hoped the prisoners’ release would play

JALALABAD (PAN Victory Day, officials said on Monday. The beneficiaries of President hamid Karzai’s orders had had served half of their jail terms, Prison Department

KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Some of protesting prisoners in the southern province of Kandahar could die if they did not call off their hunger strike, a

KANDAHAR CITY (PAN, an official said on Sunday. The inmates, most of them political prisoners, say they will continue the hunger strike and sew up

KABUL) on Tuesday rejected allegations that prisoners in Afghan jails are being mistreated. Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) alleged in a recnt report that

KABUL and the US on Friday formally signed a breakthrough agreement on the transfer of the US detention facility in central Parwan province to the

MAIDAN SHAHR (PAN): Fourteen prisoners were released and jail terms of another 40 inmates reduced in compliance with a presidential decree in central Maidan Wardak

KABUL): Almost 90 prisoners were released and jail terms of 95 others reduced in Nangarhar, Nimroz, Jawzjan and Samangan provinces in compliance with orders from

KABUL): The notorious US forces-controlled Bagram detention facility in central Parwan province would be transferred to the Afghan control next month, the Karzai office said.

KABUL. We need to do this in a manner that is maximally responsible. That’s what we want to do, and we’re going to keep working