Taliban kidnap 25 police recruits in Pakistan: official

by Dave Keating | September 4, 2008 at 12:18 am

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The Taliban has reportedly kidnapped 25 police recruits in Pakistan, in the tribal areas along the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan which is largely beyond the government's control.

Taliban militants kidnapped 25 police recruits while they were travelling to a training centre in northwestern Pakistan, a senior police official said Thursday.

The trainees were kidnapped late Wednesday in lawless Orakzai tribal district bordering Afghanistan while they were en route to a police college in the town of Hangu, said provincial police chief Malik Mohammad Naveed.

"They were kidnapped by Taliban," Naveed told AFP, after earlier reports that the trainess had gone missing.

Other police officials said two of the trainees were freed by the Taliban after they pretended to be civilians, while the 25 others were forced from their van and into waiting vehicles. The two recruits alerted police.