Taliban extends hostage deadline
From Times Wire Reports
A Taliban militia extended by 24 hours the deadline for the Afghan government to trade captured militants for 23 South Korean hostages, as U.S. and Afghan troops surrounded the area where they were kidnapped Thursday.
Afghan elders leading the hostage negotiations met with the kidnappers and reported that the Koreans were healthy, said Khwaja Mohammed Sidiqi, the police chief of Ghazni province’s Qarabagh district.
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