| Local Taliban have released seven people who had been taken hostage on Thursday night in the Doda area of Lakki Marwat, police said. “The Taliban have released seven people – Fazal Ahmed, Akhtar Zaman, Sirajuddin, Gul Rahman, Zarin, Din Mohammad and Saeed of Doda village,” Muhammad Usman from the Lakki police station told Daily Times on the telephone. Usman said that local Taliban had stopped a wedding party in Doda and shaved the heads and moustaches of three singers of Shah Hasan Khel village who were accompanying them. He added that some people of the wedding party later clashed with the Taliban and two villagers were injured while the Taliban took hostage seven people. District Police Officer Abdul Rashid Khan told Daily Times that the police had registered a case, but no one had been arrested so far. The DPO added that the police had rescued the hostages after an operation in the area. “We will arrest the Taliban once we settle a dispute that has emerged between two villages on the issue,” he said. Lakki Marwat District Nazim Humayun Saifullah Khan said that he did not know about the recent clash. |