LAHORE - Top TTP commander Latif Mehsud has been handed over to Pakistan by the Afghan security service, well-placed sources told The Nation on Saturday. According to an intelligence officer, who requested anonymity, told this correspondent that Latif Mehsud was snatched from Afghan intelligence by a special services US team.
However, according to a private TV channel, the TTP commander was under the Afghan and Nato troops joint custody for some time and was handed over to Pakistani authorities after the recent visit of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to Pakistan.
The Pakistani authorities had been demanding the return of the arrested TTP commanders.
THREE PRISONERS RETURN FROM BAGRAM
Israr Ahmed from Rawalpindi adds: Three more prisoners of Bagram Airbase were brought back to Pakistan by American forces, reliable sources disclosed to The Nation here on Saturday.
The Pakistani authorities received the prisoners and later handed them over to KP police, sources added. The prisoners were identified as Aziz Arfat son of Gulzarin, 24, from North Waziristan Agency, Latif Mehmood son of Ramzan, 26, from NWA and Jafar son of Ismail, 45, resident of Swat.
According to sources, a US Army special aircraft carrying the three prisoners, who were facing terrorism charges and languishing in Bagram jail, landed at Noor Khan Airbase at 4:10pm. Pakistani law enforcement agencies took the three prisoners into custody and later handed them over to KP police, sources added.
After dropping the three prisoners, the US airplane flew back to Afghanistan, sources said.