Kandahar: The Taliban militia in
Afghanistan on Sunday denied abducting two French television
journalists who went missing last week in the east of the
country.
"We are not involved," self-styled Taliban spokesman
Zabihullah Mujahid told a news agency by telephone from an undisclosed
location.
"We ask our fighters to inform us if they do anything
but we have no information coming from this area," he said.
There has been no claim of responsibility for the
kidnapping but a colleague of the two journalists, who were
snatched with three Afghan assistants at gunpoint on Wednesday
in Kapisa province, had blamed the Taliban.
The group disappeared while going to meet a contact 60
kilometres from the Afghan capital near French military bases.
Criminal groups and Taliban insurgents have kidnapped
several dozen foreigners, many of them journalists, since the
2001 US-led invasion ousted the Taliban regime in Kabul,
sparking the current insurgency.
PTI
