Friday, August 28, 2009

Taliban pick up erstwhile militant

Friday, August 28, 2009
Our correspondent

GHALLANAI: The militants in Mohmand Agency picked up a leader of the peace committee along with his two friends on Thursday from Qandaro area in Safi tehsil.

The sources said Yar Said alias Chakari was with his friends Sulaiman and Jan Muhammad when the militants abducted him. The spokesman for banned Tehkrik-e-Taliban Pakistan Mohmand chapter, Ikramullah Mohmand, claimed the abduction.

Officials in the political administration of Mohmand Agency confirmed the incident. Yar Said was said to be a militant himself but three months back he along with his men renounced militancy and surrendered to the political administration. The political administration later made him leader of the peace committee

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