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India-Pakistan
Waziristan militants release 6 soldiers
2007-09-06
Taliban militants have released six paramilitary soldiers held captive in South Waziristan, officials and tribal elders said on Wednesday, Reuters reported. Tribal elder Akhtar Gul Mehsud told reporters that the militants had handed over six soldiers to a tribal jirga.

Earlier, the militants had released 10 soldiers captured in Mohmand Agency on Saturday. Militants in Mohmand had demanded the release of five of their comrades and the withdrawal of troops from checkposts in the region. But, Syed Ahmed Jan, a senior government official in Ghalanai, the main town in Mohmand, said the release of the 10 was unconditional.
And if you can't take the word of Syed Ahmed Jan, a senior government official in Ghalanai, whose word can you take?
Meanwhile, two more security personnel have gone missing and another committed suicide in North Waziristan on Wednesday, Online reported.
"Mahmoud! Missing! Ahmed! Missing! I just can't take it no more!" [POW!]
A private TV channel said that the missing security personals were deployed at the Ghulam Khan checkpost near the Pak-Afghan border and it was not confirmed yet if they had been kidnapped.

Staff Report adds: Unidentified militants attacked the Bunarh police post in Mingora with hand grenades early on Wednesday, injuring a Frontier Corps soldier and damaging the checkpost, officials said. Meanwhile, a jirga of clerics will today (Thursday) negotiate with militants the weapons, money and other goods the kidnappers had robbed stolen snatched from the Mohmand Rifles soldiers who were abducted and later released, Mukarram Khan reported from Ghalanai. The jirga will also discuss with the militants the release of two government officials whom the militants kidnapped along with the 10 Mohmand Rifles troops. A clerics jirga led by Maulana Ghulam Sadiq recovered the soldiers late on Tuesday night. However, the militants did not return the weapons, salaries amounting to Rs 2.6 million and other goods that the security men possessed when they were abducted.
Posted by:Fred

#1  "two more security personnel have gone missing and another committed suicide "

At this rate there won't be any collateral to damage when we launch our air raids from Afghanistan.
Posted by: Glenmore   2007-09-06 07:18  

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