KABUL militants released athletes they had kidnapped in central Maidan Wardak province.
Governor’s spokesman, Abdur Rahman Mangal, told Pajhwok Afghan News the Taliban abducted nine sportsmen from a car on the Jalriz district road Tuesday last.
He said three of the abductees were released the same day and six others were freed after local elders’ mediation on Wednesday.
The sportsmen were released without any deal, he said, adding the men had joined their families.
An official, who wished to go unnamed . . .
