Protest in Afghanistan over envoy’s kidnapping
HEART: Hundreds of people demonstrated on Wednesday in the hometown of Afghanistan’s kidnapped ambassador-designate to Pakistan to demand greater efforts for his release, a local governor said. They marched for Abdul Khaliq Farahi, the Afghan consul general abducted in Peshawar on September 22.
“Around 1,000 people, mostly influential elders, marched in a peaceful protest calling on both countries, the United Nations and the Taliban to free Mr Farahi,” Farah province Governor Rohul-Amin said. The demonstrators read a statement in front of the governor’s office accusing both countries of not doing enough for the release of the Afghan diplomat, who had been promoted to ambassador but had yet to take up the job.
“In the past 17 days the Afghan and Pakistani governments have not taken any serious steps to free Farahi,” a protester, Haji Shah Mahmoud, told AFP by telephone. afp
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