KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Police and villagers hunted on Friday for 13 mine-clearing workers kidnapped in a restive part of Afghanistan less than a week after Taliban militants vowed to step up an abduction campaign. The de-miners, all Afghans working for a U.N.-funded land mine-clearance agency, were kidnapped Thursday in eastern Paktia province on the border with Pakistan, said provincial deputy police chief Ghulam Dastager.``We have nothing to do with politicians, the people of the area asked us to come,'' said Kefayatullah Eblagh, the head of Afghan Technical Consultants, the de-mining agency.
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