Pak Taliban denies demanding release of 50 militants

Pakistani Taliban has denied claims their chief Hakimullah Mehsud has demanded release of 50 militants detained in various prisons across the country.

Javed Ibrahim Paracha, a former member of the National Assembly, had claimed that the chief of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) had named 50 Taliban prisoners for their release on phone.

According to Dawn News, he said that prisoners belonging to banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), Sipah-i-Sahaba, a former proscribed sectarian militant group, and the TTP were included in the list.

Paracha, who later visited Adiala Jail and met Taliban prisoners, had informed the media that a procedure for the militants' release was under consideration, the report added.