Islamabad: terrorists A senior minister and two foreigners were freed on Saturday Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) region in the northern Pakistan After “successful” talks with government officials facilitated by local clerics.
Colonel (retired) Abaidullah Baig, a minister in the GB government, and two foreigners were kidnapped on Friday from Babusar Top – a mountain pass connecting northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province with Gilgit-Baltistan – where Tehreek-i- were terrorists. The Taliban Pakistan (TTP) had blocked the road. They were demanding the release of their comrades in jail.
The minister was released around 3 pm, said Muhammad AlamgiriIn-charge of water sector in GB dimmer District Seoni. “At a local jirga (council of elders) ulemas (clerics) and officials held talks with the militants,” he said.
“He (Beg) is back home and the road is open for traffic,” said GB chief secretary Mohiuddin Ahmed Wani. He said the minister had been freed “unconditionally”.
In a purported conversation with a journalist shared on social media, Baig can be heard saying that the militants had two demands: the release of their comrades from prison, and the enforcement of Islamic law, which prohibits women from sporting activities. were not.
Official sources said the GB’s most wanted terrorist commander Habibur Rahman was accused of killing 11 people – 10 of whom were foreign tourists – at the Nanga Parbat base camp in 2013, and nearly 200 of his men in the Thak village of Chilas in Diemer. The road was blocked. Passengers from both the sides remained stranded on Friday.
Ziaullah Thakvi, a member of the jirga, said the militants demanded that their captives be released or taken to Diemer, and treated like other prisoners.
Another member of the jirga, Faizulla Faraq, said the terrorists belonged to the TTP and most of them were “outsiders”. “I could identify only two from Diamer – Habibur Rahman and Abdul Hameed,” Faraq said, adding that most of them were Pashtuns.
However, the GB’s chief secretary said it was a “local group” of terrorists.
The TTP has carried out some of the deadliest attacks in Pakistan. Following the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban in August 2021, Islamabad began talks with the TTP in Kabul that recently ended in a standoff.
Colonel (retired) Abaidullah Baig, a minister in the GB government, and two foreigners were kidnapped on Friday from Babusar Top – a mountain pass connecting northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province with Gilgit-Baltistan – where Tehreek-i- were terrorists. The Taliban Pakistan (TTP) had blocked the road. They were demanding the release of their comrades in jail.
The minister was released around 3 pm, said Muhammad AlamgiriIn-charge of water sector in GB dimmer District Seoni. “At a local jirga (council of elders) ulemas (clerics) and officials held talks with the militants,” he said.
“He (Beg) is back home and the road is open for traffic,” said GB chief secretary Mohiuddin Ahmed Wani. He said the minister had been freed “unconditionally”.
In a purported conversation with a journalist shared on social media, Baig can be heard saying that the militants had two demands: the release of their comrades from prison, and the enforcement of Islamic law, which prohibits women from sporting activities. were not.
Official sources said the GB’s most wanted terrorist commander Habibur Rahman was accused of killing 11 people – 10 of whom were foreign tourists – at the Nanga Parbat base camp in 2013, and nearly 200 of his men in the Thak village of Chilas in Diemer. The road was blocked. Passengers from both the sides remained stranded on Friday.
Ziaullah Thakvi, a member of the jirga, said the militants demanded that their captives be released or taken to Diemer, and treated like other prisoners.
Another member of the jirga, Faizulla Faraq, said the terrorists belonged to the TTP and most of them were “outsiders”. “I could identify only two from Diamer – Habibur Rahman and Abdul Hameed,” Faraq said, adding that most of them were Pashtuns.
However, the GB’s chief secretary said it was a “local group” of terrorists.
The TTP has carried out some of the deadliest attacks in Pakistan. Following the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban in August 2021, Islamabad began talks with the TTP in Kabul that recently ended in a standoff.