KANDAHAR, Jan 18: US forces have flown another 30 prisoners out of their base at Kandahar airport, but this time the men have been flown to Pakistan.

A US Marine spokesman declined to reveal details of the prisoner shipment from the detention camp, saying only that the move was undertaken on orders from higher authorities.

He declined to say if the men were Pakistanis. “The are suspected Al Qaeda and Taliban,” said a spokesman for the US Marines.

The airlift to Pakistan was the first prisoner move in four nights that did not fly to the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

A fourth group of Taliban and Al Qaeda captives from the war in Afghanistan arrived at Guantanamo Bay on Thursday and International Committee of Red Cross representatives were on the way to check conditions at the prison camp.—Reuters