Mar

26

40 bus passengers kidnapped from Pak-Afghan border

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Armed tribesmen demanding release of prisoners in Afghanistan on Wednesday kidnapped 40 passengers of a bus coming from Kabul in Pakistan`s restive border region.

The passengers of the Pakistan-Afghanistan friendship bus were taken away to an unidentified location by the armed tribesmen. The kidnappers demand the release of some prisoners in Afghanistan in exchange for the passengers.

The political administration of Khyber agency assured a grand jirga that negotiated with the kidnappers and secured the release of the passengers.

According to Dawn news channel ,the jirga assured the abductors that Pakistani officials would hold talks with their Afghan counterparts to release the prisoners in Afghanistan.

The incident occurred even as senior officials of the NATO forces in Afghanistan were holding a talk with Pakistan Army officials in the Landi Kotal cantonment to discuss the bomb attack on tankers carrying oil for US troops in the neighbouring country two days ago.

Six bombs went off in a parking lot, killing two persons and destroying over 40 tankers. The NATO and Pakistan Army officials discussed measures to improve security in the area in concern of the attack.



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