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Pakistan has released its most senior Afghan Taliban detainee, the group's co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar.
The move comes after persistent requests by the Afghan government which hopes it will help the peace process in the country.
Mullah Baradar is one of the four men who founded the Taliban movement in Afghanistan in 1994.
He became a linchpin of the insurgency after the Taliban were toppled by the US-led invasion in 2001.
He was captured in the Pakistani city of Karachi in 2010.
"Baradar has been released," Omar Hamid of the Islamabad interior ministry told the news agency, AFP.
The BBC's Shahzeb Jillani in Karachi says Afghanistan's government has been asking for his release throughout his three and a half years in custody.
It is not clear where Mr Baradar will travel to after his release, our correspondent says. He may go to a third country, possibly the United Arab Emirates.
Previous releases of Taliban detainees have not had much impact, our correspondent adds.
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