Pakistan Blocks Prisoner Transfers -- Wall Street Journal
Islamabad Court Prevents Extradition of Several Taliban Leaders to Afghanistan.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—A Pakistani court has restrained the government from extraditing Afghan Taliban leaders recently detained by its intelligence services to any other country, raising the prospects of a new row between Kabul and Islamabad.
A panel of the Lahore High Court headed by Chief Justice Khawaja Sharif ordered the government not to extradite the Taliban leaders until the court gives its decision on a petition filed by a human-rights activist, Khalid Khawaja. He had filed a petition that said the Taliban leaders were arrested in Pakistan and should be tried under Pakistani laws. The court will resume its hearing on March 15.
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My Comment: It is interesting to see these Taliban leaders use Pakistan's legal process to delay extradition to Afghanistan, when in the past they refused to recognize it in favor of sharia law.