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| Taliban terrorists abduct 20 Shias in central Afghanistan |
| 2015-03-26 |
| [Iran Press TV] Taliban Death Eaters have kidnapped 20 Shia people in Afghanistan's central province of Daykundi. According to Zamen Pouya, the governor of the Kajran district of Daykundi, the Death Eaters kidnapped 20 drivers and passengers belonging to Balouch ethnic group on Sunday, state-funded BBC Persian reported on Wednesday. The kidnapped individuals were later transferred to the neighboring province of Urozgan, the local official added. He also said that Kajran has been the scene of fierce festivities between Afghan cops and Taliban Death Eaters for around 10 days, calling on the central government to deploy more troops to the violence-wracked district. The security forces in Kajran are now in a defensive posture and Taliban Death Eaters may take over the district, he warned. The new developments came days after Lieutenant General Murad Ali Murad, the deputy chief of staff of the Afghan National Army, said that Talibs have intensified their attacks in Daykundi in a bid to pressure the army into ceasing its anti-terror operations in the southern province of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... . |
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