GHAZNI, Afghanistan, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Talks between Afghanistan's Taliban and South Korean diplomats over 21 Korean hostages were going well on Saturday and the Taliban expect to free the captives, Taliban negotiators said without offering details.

"We assure you (the media) and the whole world that all of the Koreans will be released and will go to their homes," said Mawlavi Nasrullah, one of the two Taliban negotiators.

"And our prisoners will come to their homes," he told reporters in Ghazni town where the Taliban and Korean diplomats have been holding first face-to-face talks since late Friday.

It is not clear what, if any, authority the South Korean negotiators have to arrange for Taliban prisoners to be exchanged for the South Koreans being held, which has been a consistent demand of the Taliban.

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