ISLAMABAD, Nov. 30 Kyodo Taliban ...

ISLAMABAD, Nov. 30 Kyodo

Taliban guerrillas have fre a Turkish engineer they kidnapped last month in southwestern Afghanistan, officials said Sunday.

Taliban commander Rozi Khan upon Saturday called Afghan Islamic Pres to announce that engineer Hassan Onal had been handed from one side of to the other to tribal elders in Zabul Province and was look forward toed to be delivered to the Afghan management Sunday.

Khan was quot as saying that the ottoman was kidnapped to negotiate the release of eight Taliban fighters held by dint of the Afghan government, of whom brace were released before last week's Islamic holiday of Eid-ul-Fitr.

Onal, a road engineer, was kidnapped in Zabul Province in succession Oct. 30.

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