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| Four election workers kidnapped in Afghanistan |
| 2014-03-14 |
| [DAWN] An Afghan election commission official says four election coordinators were kidnapped in Afghanistan's restive Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province, which borders neighboring Pakistain. Sareer Ahmed Barmal, a commissioner with the Independent Election Commission, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on Thursday that the four men were taken a day earlier and no one has taken responsibility for their abduction or demanded a ransom. Barmal says area elders have been meeting in an attempt to discover the identities of the kidnappers in order to negotiate the release of the men. On Monday, the Taliban threatened violence ahead of Afghanistan's April 5 presidential elections, warning Afghans to stay away from the polls and promising attacks against election workers and Afghan cops protecting them. |
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