D-6: News article: Kidnapping, once again
A news agency, unknown to me, Pajhwok Afghan News, reports a kidnapping of 26 afghans (non foreigners):
Quote:
TALOQAN/FAIZABAD - Unidentified gunmen kidnapped the Reserved Border Police Unit commander along with 25 constables in Ragh district of the remote northeastern Badakhshan province, officials said on Thursday.
Badakhshan police chief Colonel Shah Jahan Noori claimed drugs-traffickers were behind the abduction of Enayatullah and his subordinates. Although he did not elaborate on the assertion, he said a smuggler had claimed responsibility for the kidnap.
Noori quoted one Safiullah, living across the frontier in Tajikistan, as saying Enayatullah connived with him at drug-trafficking. Saifullah's men kidnapped the border police unit head after he stole from them 50 pieces of weapons and $2.5 million cash, Shah Jahan Noori added.
However, commander of the provincial army corps Colonel Ghulam Mohammad Farhad rejected as baseless the allegation regarding Enayatullah's complicity in drug-trafficking. "As the commander was dead-set against the menace in the region, drugs barons managed to have him kidnapped along with 25 policemen," Farhad noted.
Ruling out any compromise with the kidnappers for the release of abductees, he said police were closing in on the smugglers hiding in Ragh district. "We are trying to secure their release without any of bloodshed," he continued.
The kidnappers had not yet communicated to them any conditions for the release of the abductees, Farhad maintained, reiterating the incident would not deter law-enforcers from their campaign to eradicate the scourge of drugs business from the region.
Confirming the incident, border police chief in Kabul, Samiullah Qatra, told Pajhwok Afghan News they had sent a delegation to the border area to investigate the case after receiving the report. He too saw smugglers, not anti-government groups, behind the incident.
Even if no foreigners have been kidnapping, it is no good sign at all...
Quote:
TALOQAN/FAIZABAD - Unidentified gunmen kidnapped the Reserved Border Police Unit commander along with 25 constables in Ragh district of the remote northeastern Badakhshan province, officials said on Thursday.
Badakhshan police chief Colonel Shah Jahan Noori claimed drugs-traffickers were behind the abduction of Enayatullah and his subordinates. Although he did not elaborate on the assertion, he said a smuggler had claimed responsibility for the kidnap.
Noori quoted one Safiullah, living across the frontier in Tajikistan, as saying Enayatullah connived with him at drug-trafficking. Saifullah's men kidnapped the border police unit head after he stole from them 50 pieces of weapons and $2.5 million cash, Shah Jahan Noori added.
However, commander of the provincial army corps Colonel Ghulam Mohammad Farhad rejected as baseless the allegation regarding Enayatullah's complicity in drug-trafficking. "As the commander was dead-set against the menace in the region, drugs barons managed to have him kidnapped along with 25 policemen," Farhad noted.
Ruling out any compromise with the kidnappers for the release of abductees, he said police were closing in on the smugglers hiding in Ragh district. "We are trying to secure their release without any of bloodshed," he continued.
The kidnappers had not yet communicated to them any conditions for the release of the abductees, Farhad maintained, reiterating the incident would not deter law-enforcers from their campaign to eradicate the scourge of drugs business from the region.
Confirming the incident, border police chief in Kabul, Samiullah Qatra, told Pajhwok Afghan News they had sent a delegation to the border area to investigate the case after receiving the report. He too saw smugglers, not anti-government groups, behind the incident.
Even if no foreigners have been kidnapping, it is no good sign at all...
posted by T.M at 10:24 PM
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