{"id":82178,"date":"2016-06-08T03:22:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T03:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/taliban-kidnap-50-passengers-on-kunduz-takhar-highway\/"},"modified":"2016-06-08T03:22:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T03:22:10","slug":"taliban-kidnap-50-passengers-on-kunduz-takhar-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/taliban-kidnap-50-passengers-on-kunduz-takhar-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban kidnap 50 passengers on Kunduz-Takhar highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/6 June\/8  Jun\/kondoz.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KUNDUZ CITY (SW): A security source who didn&rsquo;t wish to be named, told Salam Watandar that Taliban have abducted nearly 45 to 47 bus passengers at Kunduz-Takhar highway on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the exact number of the abducted passengers is not clear but there is a possibility that the number may rise.<\/p>\n<p>Qasim Jangalbagh, the Police Chief in Kunduz, confirming the news, told Salam Watandar that the militants have abducted a number of passengers from Bagh-e-Amir area in the province.<\/p>\n<p>He said that measures were taken to liberate the passengers and they have managed to release three passengers so far.<\/p>\n<p>Muhammad Yosuf Ayubi, Head of Provincial Council in the province, on the other hand, said that the Taliban have set up checkpoints in Lodin area at Kunduz-Takhar highway and check the passengers at will.<\/p>\n<p>Ayubi stated that the exact number of the kidnaped passengers is not clear but Ayub Salangi, the ex-security deputy to Ministry of Interior Affairs, has twitted that as many as 25 passengers have been kidnapped.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Salam Watandar, Amruddin Wali, a member at the Kunduz Provincial Council said that Taliban take the kidnapped passengers to Kobai-wa-Kalam area through Bagh-e-Amir.<\/p>\n<p>It is said that an operation is currently underway to release the captive passengers.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A security source who didn\u2019t wish to be named, told Salam Watandar that Taliban have abducted nearly 45 to 47 bus passengers at Kunduz-Takhar highway on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-82178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}