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48 Taliban released in exchange for Indians
This will come back and bite them down the line.
The Afghan transitional government has released 48 prisoners of the Taliban, it was reported by the Pakistani daily Dawn on Friday.
According to the paper, the Afghan transitional government has given 50 million Afghanis besides releasing 48 Taliban in exchange of the two Indian engineers, who were released a couple of days back. The Taliban had kidnapped the two Indian engineers in Shah Joy district of Zabul province on December 6. Earlier, the Afghan Interior Minister, Ali Ahmed Jalali had rejected bargain over the release of the two Indian engineers.
Posted by: Paul Moloney 2003-12-27 |
