VOA News Ayesha Tanzeem June 2, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Regional officials in Afghanistan say Taliban abducted at least 17 passengers in the north of the country late Wednesday. Zabiullah Amani, the provincial governor’s spokesman, said the passengers, local residents of Balkhab district, were traveling to the capital of Sar-e-Pul province when Taliban kidnapped them. He said local
VOA News Ayaz Gul May 31, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Afghan officials said Tuesday that the Taliban took dozens of people hostage near the northern city of Kunduz. The insurgents apparently set up a check-point in a pre-dawn action on the main road near the provincial capital and stopped buses and vehicles heading to Kunduz from the national
VOA News Ayaz Gul May 11, 2016 ISLAMABAD—The son of a former prime minister of Pakistan returned from Afghanistan Wednesday a day after he was rescued from al-Qaida-linked kidnappers in a military operation. A special Pakistani aircraft brought Ali Haider Gilani back from Kabul and landed at the airport in the eastern city of Lahore
VOA News Ayaz Gul May 10, 2016 ISLAMABAD—U.S. and Afghan commandos, in a joint raid on Tuesday, rescued the son of a former Pakistani prime minster after three years of captivity from “an al-Qaida affiliated” group, officials said. Unknown gunmen kidnapped Ali Haider Gilani, son of ex-prime minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, from a 2013 election
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 5, 2016 The U.S. Embassy in Kabul has issued a security warning to U.S. citizens after an attempted kidnapping of an American and a number of foreigners in the Afghan capital earlier in the week. Posted on the U.S. Embassy’s website, the warning said that an attempt to kidnap several
1TV: Aminullah, 14,was taken away by a professional kidnapping group nearly two weeks ago in Police District 10 of the city and was being held in a cave in the remote Shakar Dara district, the National Directorate of Security said in a statement. Click here to read more (external link).