Travel Ban For 'Taliban 5' Set To End Today

Voice of America: Travel Ban Ends Sunday for 5 Taliban Freed for US Soldier

ISLAMABAD - A travel ban on five senior Afghan Taliban officials freed by the United States in a prisoner exchange last year will expire Sunday.

The five Taliban officials have been in Qatar since last year, when they were released in exchange for the return of an American soldier held by insurgents in Afghanistan for nearly five years.

The approaching end of the travel ban has concerned American lawmakers and Afghan peace negotiators who worry that the former Taliban fighters will return to the battlefield in strife-torn Afghanistan.

WNU Editor: These Taliban operational commanders are very dangerous .... and 4 of the 5 have already indicated that they want to go back to join their comrades. To put it bluntly .... nothing good is going to come out of this release.

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