Czech tourists who were abducted from Pakistan have been shifted to Afghanistan by Taliban, sources claim

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Update October 30, 2013

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Is Czech Embassy in Islamabad hiding facts about kidnapped tourist girls?

Updates: Czech Foreign Ministry confirms news of Dispatch News Desk that two female Czech tourists who were abducted from Chagai Balochistan Pakistan have been shifted to Afghanistan by Taliban. Read latest story to click this link.

Update in previous story: Sources confirmed that Taliban have abducted  Hana Humpaloia and Antonie Chrastecka from Czech Republic.

ISLAMABAD: Two female Czech tourists who were abducted from Chagai Balochistan Pakistan have been shifted to Afghanistan by Taliban, sources claim.  Hana Humpaloia and Antonie Chrastecka, were abducted by men wearing paramilitary uniforms from an area near the border with Iran on Wednesday.

It may be mentioned that Taliban kidnapped a Swiss couple on same route in July 2011 and couple released eight months later after paying ransom. Ransom was directly paid by Swiss government that denied that it paid anything for release of couple.

Sources in Ministry of Interior of Pakistan, there are credible information that Czech female tourists have been shifted to Afghanistan by abductors who are probably Taliban and will demand ransom directly to Czech government for their release.

They had entered the southwest province from Iran to travel to India via Quetta and Lahore, officials told the media.

They were travelling through Chagai district, 550 km from the provincial capital of Quetta, when they were abducted.

 

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