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KABUL, Feb 20 (KUNA) -- The Afghan government Wednesday said suspected
Taliban militants have kidnapped two officials in the comparatively peaceful
western zone of the war-battered country.
The Interior Ministry, in a statement here, said the two employees of the
education department were abducted at gunpoint in the western province of
Farah, bordering the volatile Helmand province in the southern zone.
The two people were kidnapped by a local militant leader Ibrahim on Monday.
They were supervisors in the department in Farah province.
The statement asked the relevant agencies to keep a check on miscreants and
ensure safey of the government employees in the remote areas of the country.
In Afghanistan, government employees is an easy target for the militants,
who are often abducted and killed especially in the southern region,
comprising Kandahar, Helmand, Zabul, Khost and Paktia provinces.(end)
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