Pakistan handed over to Afghan authorities a warlord it arrested three months ago who had fought the rule of President Hamid Karzai, an official said on Thursday.
"Yesterday, Padsha Khan Zadran, along with his brother Amanullah Khan Zadran, was handed over to the Afghan authorities at the Torkham border," deputy spokesman for Karzai, Hamid Elmi, told AFP.
Elmi said Padsha Khan had led an armed revolt against the government. Karzai will invite tribal elders of Paktia province, where Padsha Khan loyalists were active, to Kabul to decide his future, he said.
Padsha Khan and his brother are being kept in an unknown "guest house" run by the Ministry of Frontier and Tribal Affairs, he said.