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Kabul: Taliban militants have abducted at least 20 civilians in Afghanistan’s south-eastern province of Ghazni, local officials confirmed on Monday. The people, who were taken from the province’s Qara Bagh district on Sunday, were transferred to an undisclosed location afterwards, provincial councillors Nasir Ahmad Faqiri and Esmatullah Jamrodwal told dpa. The area where the abduction took place is fully controlled by the Taliban, according to officials. A Taliban spokesman told dpa that the group was trying to figure out the issue, without giving further details. Ghazni is among Afghanistan’s most volatile provinces, where the insurgents control half of its districts. (dpa)
