More than 200 pro-Taliban fighters from Pakistan flew home Saturday after being released from a prison where they had been held for nearly six months in cramped quarters and with little food.
The prisoners were flown to Peshawar, Pakistan on Pakistani military planes. Like 30 earlier arrivals, they were to be detained in Peshawar's jail while authorities check their identities and determine whether they committed any crimes, said Athar Minallah, provincial minister for legal affairs. The 204 detainees had gone to Afghanistan to fight with the Taliban but were captured by northern alliance forces late last year.