Kunduz, Sha'ban 11, 1436, May 29, 2015, SPA -- A German national kidnapped by Taliban militants in Afghanistan's northern province of Kunduz has been released, police confirmed Friday. The German citizen, working with the development agency Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), was abducted by the Taliban some 45 days ago while travelling in a taxi from Kunduz to the adjacent province of Balkh, dpa quoted police officials as saying. "Our officers saw a man coming towards our checkpoint at 1 am (2030 GMT Thursday)," said Noorullah, a police official in Char Darah district in Kunduz. "When the officers brought him to the checkpoint, we found out that he was not speaking Dari or Pashto [the two official languages in Afghanistan]," Noorullah told dpa. --SPA 11:56 LOCAL TIME 08:56 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w
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