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Taliban Releases Six Crew of Pakistani Helicopter
“The six member crew of the Punjab government helicopter that went missing in Afghanistan on August 4 has been released and arrived in Islamabad today,” the statement said on Saturday.
Five Pakistanis and a Russian were taken hostage by the Taliban militants after the Russian-made transport helicopter belonging to the Punjab provincial government of Pakistan crash-landed in the Taliban-held Logar province of Afghanistan earlier this month.
After the incident, Afghan authorities confirmed that Pakistani helicopter had permission to pass Afghanistan’s air to Uzbekistan for maintenance.
Immediately it was not released what was paid in ransom for the release of the hostages to the Taliban.