LAHORE – Taliban kidnapped 24 tribesmen and also took away 15 vehicles from a festival in Kurram Agency on Tuesday while another four people were whisked away in a similar fashion from the same area, reported a private TV channel.
The incident has been reported from the Baggan area of Lower Kurram where militants attacked the weekly festival and shifted the tribesmen to their hideout in the central parts of the agency. Sources claimed that the rebels belonged to the Sattar group of Waziristan.
Later, the extremists abducted another four people from the same area. It is pertinent to note that the routine life in Kurram Agency has remained crippled and people are isolated from the rest of the country for the last three years.
The TV channel said that the tribesmen termed the latest acts of terrorism as tragic and demanded the government to take notice of the violations of the recently-signed peace agreement.
