Taliban hints at resolution of Korean hostage crisis
By Rahimullah Yusufzai, Correspondent
Published: August 26, 2007, 00:01
On whether the Taliban would release the 19 Korean hostages if the government of South Korea agreed to pull out its troops within a matter of weeks and also withdrew all Korean firms, employees and aid workers as demanded by the Taliban, Abdullah said these were demands, along with the release of Taliban prisoners, had already been articulated.
News reports earlier had stated that the Taliban would release the Korean hostages as part of a Saudi-mediated deal under which South Korea would withdraw its troops from Afghanistan over a few weeks and also prevail on Korean firms and workers in Afghanistan to return home.
Asked to comment on reports that an agreement on the release of Korean hostages would be reached in Ghazni today, Abdullah said: "It may happen tomorrow, the day after or after two to three days."
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