This picture taken 10 October 2004, shows Pakistani tribal leader Abdullah Mahsud offering prayers in an open space in the Chagmaly area of South Waziristan district bordering Afghanistan. One of Pakistan's top Taliban militants, wanted for the kidnapping of two Chinese engineers in 2004, blew himself up during a clash with security forces. Abdullah Mehsud killed himself with a hand grenade after troops raided a hideout in the Zhob district of southwestern Baluchistan province late Monday(AFP/File)
15:11, August 03, 2007
Taliban claims to have kidnapped Indian engineer
The Taliban on Friday claimed that it had kidnapped an Indian engineer in Baghlan province of northern Afghanistan.
A local Taliban commander Bahlol said Taliban fighters abducted the Indian engineer, who was working at a local power project, on Thursday in Puli Khumri, the provincial capital.
The engineer has been brought to the central Ghazni province, where 23 South Koreans were abducted on July 19, he added.
However, police chief in Baghlan and officials in Ghazni said they did not hear the alleged abduction.
Taliban militants have carried out kidnappings in this country over the past two years frequently, and some hostages were killed by the Taliban.
Source: Xinhua
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