Pakistan would consider any request by Afghanistan to hand over a Taliban spokesman who was arrested in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province, officials said Thursday, according to AP. Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao said Afghanistan has not made any request to Pakistan to hand over Mullah Hakim Latifi, who was arrested this week by Pakistani intelligence agents in Quetta, Baluchistan's capital. «If they make any request, we will look into it at that time,» Sherpao said. Pakistan does not have an extradition treaty with Afghanistan, but has handed over some Taliban suspects in the past. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam said there have been reports in the media that Afghanistan wants Latifi to be handed over, but said no request had been received from the Afghan government. She also said the United States had not requested that he be delivered to U.S. authorities.
