Taliban Envoy Back to Afghanistan: Pak Spokesman

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Taliban Envoy Back to Afghanistan: Pak Spokesman

Former Taliban Ambassador to Pakistan Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef has crossed over to Afghanistan since Pakistan has turned down his request for political asylum, Pakistani Foreign Office spokesman Ziz Ahmed Khan said here on Saturday.

Aziz told a briefing that Pakistan had rejected the request of Mullah Zaeef who sought political asylum in Pakistan after the fall of Taliban in Kandahar in the first week of December last year.

"He has gone to Afghanistan and he is no more inside Pakistan,"Khan said while responding to a number of questions about whereabouts of Zaeef.

It was reported earlier that Zaeef was detained from his residence in Islamabad and brought to Peshawar, a northwest city near Pak-Afghan border by the Pakistani police on Thursday.