Kabul government is expected to release 3 prisoners linked to militant group. FMTNews
Professors Australian Timothy Weekes and American Kevin King were abducted in August 2016.
The release of American Kevin King and Australian Timothy Weeks, both professors at the American University in Kabul, comes one week after President Ashraf Ghani announced that Afghanistan would free three high-ranking Taliban prisoners in an apparent swap that he hoped would help jumpstart peace talks.
Ghani had first announced the exchange on Nov 12, saying the Taliban prisoners held at Bagram prison would be “conditionally” released. The other two Taliban prisoners to be released are Haji Mali Khan, believed to be the uncle of Sirajuddin Haqqani, and Abdul Rashid, said to be the brother of Mohammad Nabi Omari, a member of the Taliban’s political office in Qatar.
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