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May God keep them safe and they get out soon .... why cant PA take any action to recover our boys ... SSG can come in handy
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Pakistani Taliban on Saturday claimed responsibility for holding up to 25 boys hostage as punishment for tribesmen who supported the military in the country's troubled northwest.
A Pakistani Taliban spokesman said they held the boys, and their fate would be decided by the militants from Bajaur.
"We have kidnapped them as their parents and tribal elders are helping the government and are fighting against us," spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan told Reuters from an undisclosed location.
A group of around 60 boys took part in the outing but about 20 below ten years old were allowed to return to Pakistan, while up to 40 others between 12 to 14 years old were held, officials said earlier.
Pakistani Taliban claim holding 30 abducted boys
KHAR, Pakistan (AP) — The Pakistani Taliban said Saturday they are holding around 30 Pakistani boys who were abducted three days ago after being lured across the border into Afghanistan.
The group's spokesman Ahsanullah Ahsan said the boys were kidnapped because they belong to a tribe opposed to the militants. He said the Taliban will decide the boys' fate and set conditions for a possible release.
Pakistani officials have said the boys, who are between 12 and 15 years old, were seized on Thursday in Afghanistan's Kunar province after crossing over from their villages in the Bajur border region. They were allegedly lured by a man who invited them to play in a river.
Ahsan did not say where or how the boys were seized, only that the Taliban are holding them. He also claimed they are over 20 years of age, significantly higher than the age given by Pakistani officials.
"They belong to a tribe that is always up against the militants," Ahsan told The Associated Press over the phone from an undisclosed location.
Militants often target people from tribes who oppose — or do not support — them.
Also, large groups of militants from Afghanistan have been attacking security checkpoints in Pakistan in recent months in deadly cross-border raids. The Pakistani army has said the attackers are militants who fled the military's offensives in Pakistan and are using Afghan soil as a safe haven.
The Taliban announcement on holding the boys appears to strengthen that claim. It is also an indication of the complexity of fighting militants along the volatile and porous border.
On Friday, the top Pakistani official in Bajur, Islam Zeb, said the militants initially seized around 40 boys but released those under the age of 12 and allowed them to travel back home.
so taliban got 30 more suicide bombers...not good
Going throughthe responses - at least for me, I can discount Jana's posts, AZ seems to think it's more productive to bash the Indian than to ask how it is that with all of Pakistan available, that these children end up in Talib infested areas to "picnic" and it seems very few are willing to ask if it makes sense that parents send children by themselves to picnic in a Talib infested area.
I'm concerned because few things don't make sense here and even fewer people want to look at things critically - instead, the usual appeal to the supernatural.
Only Rafi, has responded with some reality -- The Pakistani state is a giant, if it wants mountains to disappear overnight, then that's just what will happen.
In this case it seems to that the state finds itself over a barrel, so to speak, if it acts militarily, it will find itself in a ambush, if it does not act, then of course it is open to charges that it does not care -- and this consideration, to me, suggests that this is not some crime of opportunity, but a well planned out operation and the collusion of one or more set of parents or chaperons, if there were any, should not be diminished.
If Ahsan is being truthful than the "official" line, then the question arises how they got such a big group together - Dailytimes is suggesting that the number is 40 -- it's all, murky.
It appears as if no body wants to give out any specific details.
Then the story goes - They were lured by a man who invited them to play in the river. It makes me wonder what source told the officials that some man lured them to play in the river..
Brainwashed children are victims, it's the scum bags who make them so, deserve to have their nuts removed by RPG.