Pakistan will hand over detained top Taliban commander Mulla Abdul Ghani Baradar to the Afghan government, Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said Wednesday.
Malik, his Afghan counterpart Mohammad Hanif Atmar and U.S. FBI chief Robert Miller held a joint meeting in Islamabad on Wednesday.
Briefing media after the meeting, Malik said that it was decided to hand over the arrested Taliban second-in-command to Afghan authorities.
He said biometric system would be installed on the Pakistan- Afghanistan border within two months.
U.S. authorities has asked Pakistan to transfer Baradar and other wanted terrorists to America but Pakistan said they will be extradited to the country of their origin if they have not violated Pakistani law.
Last week Pakistan and the White House confirmed that Mullah Baradar was captured in southern Pakistani port city of Karachi, hailed as big success in U.S.-Pakistani cooperation in counter- terrorism.
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