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Taliban rescues 2 kidnapped Sikhs,
to hang offenders
WSN Network
ISLAMABAD:
Two
Sikhs, who were abducted from a district in Pakistan’s restive North
West Frontier Province, have been rescued by the local Taliban and
religious scholars, who decided to publicly hang their nine
kidnappers on Monday to “discourage crimes” in the region.
Attar Singh and
Sehra Singh were kidnapped by a group of criminals from Dowaba in
Hangu district. They were freed on Saturday after the intervention
of local Taliban, religious scholars and tribal elders, a Pakistani
daily reported.
Members of a
tribal jirga or council of elders took the two Sikhs back to their
homes. Sources told the daily that the Tehrik-e- Taliban Pakistan
and local council of clerics had taken nine kidnappers into their
custody. One kidnapper was also killed by the Taliban. A jirga of
religious scholars and local Taliban held at Khadezai area of nearby
Aurakzai Agency decided to publicly hang the kidnappers on Monday to
“discourage crimes in the area”. Maulvi Omar, the spokesman for the
Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, said the Sikhs were taken by their
kidnappers from Dowaba in Hangu to Baghu in Aurakzai Agency.
Omar said one of
the kidnappers was killed, while their leader, Ghani, was
apprehended. The kidnappers will be punished in accordance with
Islamic injunctions and operations by Taliban against anti-social
elements will continue in Aurakzai Agency, he said.
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April 2008
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