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| Helicopter crew members are safe: FO |
| 2016-08-13 |
| [DAWN] The Foreign Office has confirmed that the crew of a Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard 2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers 3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... government helicopter that crash-landed in Afghanistan last week is safe and efforts for its rescue are continuing. "As informed by the Afghan side, the crew members are safe," FO front man Nafees Zakaria said at his weekly media briefing on Thursday. The FO statement about the well-being of the crew follows a similar claim by the Russian foreign ministry which said: "It is reassuring that, according to the majority of sources, the lives of the hostages are not in danger." The helicopter made an emergency landing in a Taliban-controlled district of Pashtun-infested Logar province on Aug 4 while flying to Russia for maintenance and seven crew members, including a Russian navigator, were taken hostage by a group of myrmidons. Both Russian and Pak governments have been making efforts for the release of the hostages. The Afghan government initiated an operation for identification of the captors and rescue of the hostages. "Efforts for the recovery are under way and as soon as there is any tangible development we shall inform," Mr Zakaria said in a statement issued in the evening after media speculation about the release of the captives. At the media briefing, he said the Afghan government was trying to secure their release with the help of elders of the area. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Try $400 million in Swiss francs. That seems to get hostages sprung. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2016-08-13 07:46 |