Pakistan Releases Four Taliban Intelligence Agents Detained In Peshawar
Pakistani authorities have freed four members of the Taliban’s intelligence unit from a prison in Peshawar, sources told Afghanistan International on Friday.
Pakistani authorities have freed four members of the Taliban’s intelligence unit from a prison in Peshawar, sources told Afghanistan International on Friday.
The individuals were arrested several months ago in Peshawar on espionage charges, according to local sources. Pakistani officials have previously reported detaining Afghans accused of sabotage within the country.
In February 2025, Pakistani security forces reported killing eight militants in North Waziristan, including one identified as an Afghan Taliban member from Chak District in Maidan Wardak province. The individual was allegedly linked to both the Hafiz Gul Bahadur faction of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the Afghan Taliban.
On January 30, 2025, Pakistani security sources told Afghanistan International that Badruddin Yousuf, the son of the Taliban’s deputy governor in Badghis, was among three militants killed in a military operation in the Kulachi area of Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Yousuf, a trainer at a Pakistani Taliban training centre, was initially refused burial by the Taliban but was later interred in Bala Murghab district, Ghor province.
