Taliban frees 2 kidnapped Afghan journalists

  • 12/15/2022
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KABUL, Afghanistan, November 30, SPA -- Taliban militants who kidnapped two Afghan journalists have released them after three daysin captivity, officials said Sunday. The two journalists freed late Saturday are Dawa KhanMenapal of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and Aziz Popal,who worked for a local TV station in Kandahar, said GulabShah Alikheil, the deputy governor of Zabul province. Militants kidnapped the two in Ghazni province onWednesday as they were driving on the country's mainKabul-Kandahar highway, Associated Press reported. The Taliban's high council ordered the pair releasedwithout any condition because they were journalists, saidQari Yousef Ahmadi, a Taliban spokesman.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/612492

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