Washington: Afghanistan’s Taliban movement has released a new video of a captured US soldier, offering to release him as part of a prisoner exchange, the IntelCenter monitoring service said today.

The nearly eight-minute-long video showed Bowe Bergdahl, in a beard and wearing an army jacket, reading a newspaper and doing push-ups, the service said.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid is heard at the end of the video making a statement, with English subtitles, reiterating demands for the release of “a limited number of prisoners in exchange for this American prisoner.” “Unfortunately, the arrogant American rulers are not ready to take any step in this regard,” he added.