QUETTA:
Militants linked to Taliban have released four more persons who were among the nine men kidnaped earlier in the month from Killa Saifulla and Zhob districts on the DI Khan-Quetta Highway.
“The kidnappers have released four people near Zarmilna area of South Waziristan border,” DC Zhob, Nazir Mohammed Khethran, told The Express Tribune. “They are in the custody of local administration,” he said.
He said two people are still in the captivity of the militants. According to officials in Zhob, the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the kidnappings.
The militants had also killed Liaquat Ali Khan of Talagang area in Punjab, an official of Pakistan Air Force who was among the kidnapped people, and dumped his body in Zhob. On January 4, the militants had intercepted a passenger bus coming from Islamabad and forced off five people at gunpoint. After a few hours militants kidnapped four people from a car coming to Zhob from Quetta. All the nine remained in captivity of militants for over a month.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 23rd, 2015.
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@Shahrez Qureshi: Thank you...I stand corrected.
Wow!!
Sentiments of disappointment here, are almost choking.
@Parvez: It was the bomber who blew himself in Wah, not Wagha.
ET why are you'll sleeping ?........DAWN has reported that the Wagha Border bomber was a student of Lal Masjid......now thats big news.
This Government is making highways and motor ways but who is going to travel on these roads? Perhaps only Talabans and its supporters.
So the Taliban are operating freely on a highway in Zhob !! Kudos to our premier intelligence agency and the security forces.