Balkh: Taliban kidnap population registration official

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): Taliban have kidnapped the population registration head for the Chahar Bolak district of northern Balkh province, an official said on Monday.

Police spokesman Adil Shah Adil told Pajhwok Afghan News the incident happened in the Alamkhel village of the district on the Balkh-Jawzjan highway late on Sunday.

Adil added the militants abducted the district population registration head, Sakhidad Khan, who was heading to Mazar-i-Sharif. Tribal elders are trying to secure Khan’s release, he concluded.

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