Afghanistan’s government has criticised a US deal to free five senior Taliban militants in exchange for an US army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl.<br /><br />The five prisoners have been moved from Guantanamo Bay prison to Qatar. They had been classed as “high risk” by the Pentagon and held high-ranking positions in the Taliban regime before it was toppled by a US-led coalition in 2001.<br /><br />Afghan foreign ministry spokesman Ahmad Shekib Mustaghni said that if the US had moved the five men without a previous agreement with Qatar, “this act will be considered to be violating all international norms.”<br /><br />Afghan government sources say President Hamid Karzai is angry that he was kept in the dark about the deal.<br /><br />“The president is now even more distrustful of US intentions in the country,” a source at Karzai’s palace, who declined to be identified, told Reuters.<br /><br />Bowe Bergdahl had been in captivity for nearly five years, before his release on Saturday, May 31. <br /><br />Bergdahl is currently at Landstuhl military hospital in Germany. He is undergoing a “reintegration process,“ <br />according to a hospital spokesman.
