Abdullah Abdullah, the head of the High Council of National Reconciliation and the chair of the Loya Jirga, at a press conference on Saturday said that none of the 50 committees of the jirga categorically the oppose release of the 400 high-value Taliban prisoners, which is a Taliban precondition to allow the intra-Afghan negotiations begin.

Omar Zakhilwal, former ambassador of Afghanistan to Islamabad, criticized what he called the "bias" of the state-owned national television--RTA--for not airing his interview in which, according to him, he criticized the consultative Loya Jirga, the grand assembly.