TIRINKOT (Pajhwok): Taliban militants have taken a member of the People’s Peace Movement (PPM) hostage in central Uruzgan province, the movement said on Monday.
Iqbal Khyber, the PPM head, told Pajhwok Afghan News that militants took away Nazar Jan Nazari, the movement provincial committee head, from Sorkh Murghab Ada area of Tirinkot City, the provincial capital.
Nazari was attending a peace celebration ceremony in the area under Taliban control when the insurgents captured him.
However, Khyber said the Taliban had assured them of releasing their member.
Meanwhile, Bismiullah Watandost, PPM spokesman, said they had visited areas under Taliban many times and had cleared Taliban’s suspensions but the rebels continued to arresting their members.
Nazari was arrested by the Taliban after the United States and the the insurgents signed a keenly-awaited peace pact on ending the war in Afghanistan in Doha on last Saturday afternoon and the Taliban chief also announced general forgiveness, Watandost added.
Attaullah Afghan, a civil society activist who was with Nazari, said that Nazari was arrested by Taliban’s intelligence personnel.
On the other hand, Taliban spokesman Qari Yusuf Ahmadi said the matter would be investigate the outcome shared with media.
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