Pakistan PM in Kabul Discusses Taliban --- Nawaz Sharif said after meeting in Kabul with Afghan President Hamid Karzai that an agreement had been reached to allow members of an Afghan peace council to continue talks with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, who was released from Pakistani detention last September. Sharif did not elaborate. --- "Mullah Baradar has been released. We discussed this matter at length today and we jointly have agreed on a mechanism and we will see it is properly implemented, and anybody who is sent by the president to Pakistan to talk to Mullah Baradar, we will carry out the instructions given to us by the president and make sure that such meeting takes place," Sharif said. -- Karzai, however, said in a statement released by his office after the meeting that he had asked for Baradar's "full release," indicating that the former insurgent was still under Pakistani supervision. He also requested the release of all Afghan Taliban held by Pakistan. -- It added that Sharif told Karzai he agreed on "facilitating the meeting of Mullah Baradar with his family, agreed on his full release, but mentioned that this issue should also be discussed with the Americans." -- Pakistan has released around four dozen Taliban prisoners over the last year. It has never said how many it is detaining. The U.S. has in the past expressed concern about the release of Taliban without some way of monitoring their whereabouts. -- Sharif said 2014 was a "milestone" as foreign forces depart and Afghanistan takes responsibility for its future and sovereignty. NATO and United Nations mandates that have kept tens of thousands of international forces in Afghanistan since the American invasion in late 2001 expire next year. -- Both men made very short remarks after their meeting and took no questions. Both expressed their general desire for closer ties, trade and regional peace. -- Karzai said that working together "Afghanistan and Pakistan will be rescued from terrorism and extremism." - More, PATRICK QUINN - Associated Press