Taliban Commander Jailed for Kidnapping Foreigners Granted Early Release

A Taliban commander sentenced to 16 years in prison for kidnapping three UN workers in Kabul in 2004 has been granted an early release.

Details of Akbar Agha’s release have not been made known but according to those close to the Taliban leader he had received a pardon from Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Those claims could not be verified and a spokesman for Karzai said the president “could not recall the matter.”

According to reports Agha was released late last year under the stipulation that he remain in Kabul.

His release is a surprise to many after he had been handed a lengthy sentence for kidnapping a woman from Northern Ireland and two men from Kosovo and the Philippines, all three UN workers. The kidnapping was said to have been carried out as a means to launch a Taliban splinter group, The Army of Muslims.

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