Taliban release Chinese engineer

February 15 2009 18:47:14

Taliban release Chinese engineer

Agence France-Presse

A Taliban spokesman in the troubled Swat valley, Muslim Khan, said the engineer had been freed as a "goodwill gesture." "He was handed over to local administration officials in Barikot town of the Swat valley", Khan told reporters.

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