Rights activist freed by Taliban
KOHAT, Nov 18: Local Taliban on Sunday released the chairman of All-Pakistan Human Rights Organisation in Darra Adam Khel, in the frontier region of Kohat.
The district coordination officer and political agent Kamran Zeb told Dawn on Sunday that Habibur Rehman Orakzai had been released unharmed and without payment of any ransom.
Mr Orakzai was kidnapped on Sunday last in Akhorwal area along with his family while they were going home.
Later, the captors also released women who were taken to Peshawar.
The political administration had summoned a jirga of five main tribes and asked them to ensure the release of Mr Kamran Zeb. The Akhorwal tribe was warned, particularly those from whose land he had been kidnapped. He was released in the mountains of Darra Adam Khel from where he reached a khasadar post.
Source: The News
Date:11/19/2007
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