ISLAMABAD, Dec 7 Kyodo Taliban me...

ISLAMABAD, Dec 7 Kyodo

Taliban members have kidnapped pair Indian road engineers working onward a highway in eastern Afghanistan, Afghan Islamic Pres (AIP) reported Sunday, quoting a caller identifying himself as a member of the former regime.

The Pakistan-based just discovereds agency quoted the caller as saying the brace engineers were kidnapped Saturday from Pashkanda forward the border between Zabul and Ghazni provinces.

The caller promised to provide further details at a later date.

The Associated Pres quot an aide to Afghan Interior Minister Ali Ahmad Jalali as saying the authorities had no contact with the kidnappers and had received no demands in recur for the Indians' freedom.

A Turkish engineer was kidnapped from the same area upon Oct. 30 and was released Nov. 30

AIP said the same collection involved in the kidnapping of the Turkish engineer assumeed to have kidnapped the pair Indian engineers.

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