Taliban release kidnapped Pakistani workers of polish company

Six Pakistani employees of a Polish oil and gas company who were kidnapped last year by the Taliban have been freed, a senior government official said today.

The workers from Geofizyka Krakow were kidnapped by the Pakistani Taliban in November 2016 from the city of Dera Ismail Khan in the country's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

"They have been freed unconditionally and handed over to us late Sunday," Zafrul Islam Khattak, the top government official in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal district bordering Afghanistan, told AFP.

Khattak said the release took place with the help of tribal elders who negotiated with the kidnappers based in Afghanistan's eastern Paktika province.

"The kidnappers first handed over the six workers to tribal elders at the border with Afghanistan," Khattak said, adding that the tribal elders later handed them over to Pakistani authorities.

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