A citizen of Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

 known as Mufti Yousuf is an alleged Taliban leader and spokesman.

On 15 October 2001
Mufti Yousuf
was paccompanying international
journalists in Jalalabad.
The Associated Press

Associated Press

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quoted his response to reports of an aerial bombardment aimed at Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was the founder of the militant Islamist organization Al-Qaeda, the jihadist organization responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets...

's underground headquarters in nearby Tora Bora

Tora Bora

Tora Bora , known locally as Spīn Ghar , is a cave complex situated in the White Mountains of eastern Afghanistan, in the Pachir Wa Agam District of Nangarhar province, approximately west of the Khyber Pass and north of the border of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas in Pakistan...

:
Pakistan's Ambassador to Afghanistan was captured on 11 February 2008.
When he was set free on 16 May 2008 Pakistani authorities denied that his release was due to a negotiated prisoner swap.

Nevertheless the BBC

BBC

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, the Pak Tribune, and the Asia Times

Asia Times

Asia Times was a newspaper launched in Thailand by Thai tycoon Sondhi Limthongkul in 1995. The newspaper hired talent from around the world to produce a regional English-language newspaper....

all reported there had been a prisoner swap.
The Asia Times reported that 55 militants were released, and named Mufti Yousuf and Muslim Dost as two of the most senior swapped captives.