As part of strengthening Afghan national reconciliation program, the US military in coordination with Afghan government set free 57 suspected Taliban militants in the Afghan capital Kabul Saturday.

"You are free from now on. Afghanistan is the home of all Afghans. Let us all live as brothers in unity as our grandparents lived in the past," head of the Program for Tahkim-e-Solh (PTS) or strengthening peace program, Sibghatullah Mujadadi told the freed men and audience on the occasion.

In his efforts to end Taliban-led militancy and stabilize security in the war-torn nation, President Hamid Karzai has announced amnesty for the all armed opposition groups except Taliban's chief Mullah Mohammad Omar and his close aids and commanders numbering 150.

To implement the agenda, the president constituted a committee under former resistance leader Sibghatullah Mujadadi and authorized him to push ahead with reconciliation policy.

Under the policy, over 200 suspected Taliban detainees were released this year, while over 400 Afghans with the suspicion of having links with Taliban and al-Qaida are still languishing in some 23 US detention centers in Afghanistan.

Source: Xinhua