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Taliban Claim To Have Killed Abducted Indian Hostage
Times Of India ^ | 4/30/2006 | Times Of India

Posted on 04/29/2006 11:29:13 PM PDT by Dallas59

KANDAHAR: Afghan police found the headless body of an unidentified man in southern Afghanistan, a senior official said, as the Taliban on Sunday claimed it had shot dead an Indian hostage after he tried to escape.

Ghulam Nabi Malakhail, police chief of Zabul province, said a highway police patrol found the body near the Hassan Kariez district of Zabul, the same area where Indian hostage K Suryanarayana was abducted on Friday.

"We are investigating whether the body is that of the Indian hostage," Malakhail said.

Qari Yousaf Ahmadi, who releases regular statements on behalf of outlawed Taliban fighters, said militants shot the Indian after he tried to escape and fought with his captors.

Indian Embassy has sent a team of officials to Zabul to inspect the headless body after Taliban claims to have killed the Indian hostage.

Ahmadi issued a threat earlier saying all Indians must leave Afghanistan by 6:00 pm on Sunday or the Indian telecommunications engineer would be executed.

Suryanarayana, a father of three from Hyderabad aged in his early 40s, had been employed in Afghanistan since January by a Bahrain-based company al-Moayyad.

The company has been contracted by an Afghan mobile phone company, Roshan, to expand its mobile phone network across volatile provinces in southern Afghanistan.

His kidnapping is the first since four Macedonians of Albanian descent were kidnapped and killed in March, purportedly by Taliban militants.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; bastards; hostage; india; iran; islam; israel; muslim; osama; pakistan; taliban; wot
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1 posted on 04/29/2006 11:29:14 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: Dallas59

Abducted engineer's family in shock

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1510233.cms

HYDERABAD: The news of Indian engineer A. Suryanarayana's abduction by Taliban in Afghanistan has shocked his family here.

Suryanarayana was abducted on Friday evening while travelling from Kalat, capital of Zabul province, to Ghazni. The Taliban has claimed the responsibility for the act, but no demands for his release have been made so far.

The engineer's family was shocked when officers from the regional passport office here informed them about the abduction.

His parents, wife K. Manjula and their three children were inconsolable even as other family members and relatives rushed to their house in Chandranagar in Malkajgiri neighbourhood to be with them.

"He was with us just 20 days ago and spoke to us over phone three days ago. We had never thought he would be kidnapped," said Manjula as tears rolled down her cheeks. Her two daughters and a son were all in trauma.

"He has not harmed anyone and we hope that the abductors would not harm him and release him immediately," she said.

The family members said Suryanarayana, who was working as telecom engineer at Tata Tele Services in Hyderabad, had joined Bahraini firm Al Mayyad in Afghanistan four months ago. He had come to meet this month and returned to Afghanistan.

Regional passport officer Bala Bhaskar said the ministry of external affairs was in close touch with the Indian embassy in Afghanistan and all efforts were being made to seek his release.

This is the third such incident in which the Taliban has targeted an Indian.

Nearly five months ago, Ramankutty Maniyappan, an engineer with the Indian Border Road Organisation (BRO), was kidnapped and beheaded by the Taliban militia to intimidate Indian workers into leaving Afghanistan.

Two months ago, Bharar Kumar, an Indian engineer working for the Louis Berger group that had sub-contracted the construction of the Kandahar-Herat highway to a Turkish construction company, was killed in an explosion in Farah province.

There are reports of Indian doctors working in Afghanistan getting threats from the Taliban.

This is the second time that a man from Andhra Pradesh has been kidnapped in Afghanistan.

In December 2003, Taliban had kidnapped Murali and Vardaiah, both semi-skilled labourers working on a highway connecting Kabul and Kandahar, on suspicion that they were spying for India. However, they were released unharmed after 20 days.



2 posted on 04/29/2006 11:34:33 PM PDT by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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To: CarrotAndStick

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1623769/posts


http://indiaenews.com/2006-04/6135-india-proposed-deployment-paramilitary-crpf-afghanistan.htm

India proposed deployment of paramilitary CRPF in Afghanistan

Sunday, April 30th, 2006 at 12:44 am

New Delhi - Yet another kidnapping of an Indian engineer in Afghanistan has taken place even as the government of President Hamid Karzai is considering New Delhi’s proposal of deploying its paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel to guard Indians working in the risky countryside.

India had made this proposal in the wake of the killing five months ago of Ramankutty Maniyappan, an engineer of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) working on the Zaranz-Delaram highway construction.

Karzai was reminded of the proposal when he was here on a visit earlier this month.

Diplomatic sources say that besides slow decision-making, the Karzai government is also hamstrung by Pakistani sensitivities about the presence of around 2,000 Indians working on various infrastructure and development projects in Afghanistan.

Islamabad has time and again protested at India having four consulates in Afghanistan, two of them in Jalalabad and Kandahar that are near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

Pakistan keeps accusing the Indian consulates of fomenting trouble in the tribal areas of North and South Waziristan where Pakistani security forces are constantly locked in a war of attrition with the Taliban and remnants of the Al Qaeda.

Who is behind Indian engineer K. Suryanarayan’s kidnapping is not still clear. Sources say Qaeri Yusuf Ahmadi, who claimed to speak for the Taliban is not the usual spokesman. Claims by the Taliban are generally done in the name of its supremo Mullah Omar.

Osama bin Laden too has never blamed India or Indians. However, his deputy, Ayman al-Zaweherie, last week for the first time spoke of ‘a Christian-Hindu-Zionist conspiracy’. One reason for this could be the perceptions about growing Indo-US relations in the wake of President George W. Bush’s visit to India and the nuclear deal.

It is more likely that the kidnapping has been engineered by Pakistani agencies supporting the forces opposed to the Indian presence. A likely source of trouble could be Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the one-time Mujahideen leader of the anti-Soviet campaign in Afghanistan who later accused India of supporting his arch-rival, the late Ahmed Shah Massoud.


3 posted on 04/29/2006 11:37:40 PM PDT by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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To: Wiz; Cronos; Gengis Khan; voice of india

Ping.


4 posted on 04/29/2006 11:39:29 PM PDT by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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To: Dallas59
...claimed it had shot dead an Indian hostage after he tried to escape.

So are they claiming he prompted his own murder and it really wasn't because they were Nazi-like supremacists showing zero tolerance for other faiths (like Hinduism)?

5 posted on 04/29/2006 11:45:52 PM PDT by weegee ("CBS NEWS? Is that show still on?" - freedomson)
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To: Dog; ravingnutter; Straight Vermonter

ping


6 posted on 04/30/2006 12:04:23 AM PDT by Wiz
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To: Dallas59

Wow,

The big bad Taliban killed a single, unarmed innocent man, and the send out a press release to brag about it.

Some real men, huh?

Ridiculous and evil people who shall someday meet thier maker under very harsh conditions


7 posted on 04/30/2006 12:05:33 AM PDT by Greenpees (Coulda Shoulda Woulda)
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To: Greenpees

You said it.


8 posted on 04/30/2006 12:23:51 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Dallas59

But but he tried to escape and fought with us..we were justified.


9 posted on 04/30/2006 12:27:10 AM PDT by Critical Bill (An awareness of the Muslim contradiction must gnaw in even the dullest fundamentalist brain.)
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To: Critical Bill

He did not "submit"... and thus he was killed. Such is the way of Allah.


10 posted on 04/30/2006 12:44:57 AM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: Dallas59; CarrotAndStick

I can bet that Pakistan was involved in the kidnapping and murder.


11 posted on 04/30/2006 1:24:22 AM PDT by Gengis Khan
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To: Gengis Khan

It's obvious.This poor fellow was not even working for any Indian concern.Who benefits most by driving out all Indians & opposing deployment of Indian CPOs in Afghanistan?????????


12 posted on 04/30/2006 3:26:17 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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To: sukhoi-30mki

I think we should send in the Army instead of the police.


13 posted on 04/30/2006 6:29:12 AM PDT by Gengis Khan
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To: Gengis Khan

Well,any forces committed would have to be content with guard duties given (Paki) sensitivities-that would make the army a no-no.


14 posted on 04/30/2006 6:37:03 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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To: Gengis Khan
I can bet that Pakistan was involved in the kidnapping and murder.

Any proof of that? Wasnt there an attempt on Musharraf's life by the same folks? India should stop whining and take decisive action against Islamic terror.

15 posted on 04/30/2006 3:51:44 PM PDT by The Lion Roars
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To: The Lion Roars

Umm what further proof do you need that Pakiland has been very iffy about Indian activities in Afghanistan.Besides why are Afghanistan & the US so pissed off about Pakistan????

About taking action against Islamic filth,well that means taking on the Paki military,which a lot of folks will think will destabilise poor mushy.


16 posted on 04/30/2006 8:07:58 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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To: The Lion Roars

"India should stop whining and take decisive action against Islamic terror."
Let me enlighten you. US didnt allow Indian troops to operate in Afghanistan due to pressure from the Bush's pal Musharraf. So dontgo saying what India should do.


17 posted on 04/30/2006 8:52:15 PM PDT by Arjun (Skepticism is good. It keeps you alive.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki
Umm what further proof do you need that Pakiland has been very iffy about Indian activities in Afghanistan.Besides why are Afghanistan & the US so pissed off about Pakistan????

in the past i would have agreed with you. but isnt the pakistani army taking on the taliban in wazirstan and other provinces? wasnt there an attempt on musharraf's life by these very elements. now it could very well be the case that a small renegade section is supporting the taliban. but let us not pronounce the whole military guilty.

About taking action against Islamic filth,well that means taking on the Paki military,which a lot of folks will think will destabilise poor mushy.

my whole point. when will india do that? why should we come and clean everybodys backyard. let me present a hypothetical scenario to you. if there was NO terrorism in kashmir would india have joined us in the WOT?? please be honest. i know that a lot of communists and left leaning folks in india hate us for no reason.

18 posted on 04/30/2006 9:00:50 PM PDT by The Lion Roars
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To: Arjun
Let me enlighten you. US didnt allow Indian troops to operate in Afghanistan due to pressure from the Bush's pal Musharraf. So dontgo saying what India should do.

I am tired of that allegation that the US didnt allow india to do this or do that. I even remember reading a theory that we prevented india from going to war with pakistan in 2002(??) after an attack on their parliament. Honestly I think the Indians are scared of Pakistan and their military wasnt prepared to take on such an offensive. Hence they came up with this face saving excuse. When everything else fails - blame the US. We may have been interested in preventing war for the general good but it was the indian political leadership that lacked the spine to attack pakistan

Honestly look at your size and your economy and look at Pakistan. If China was in your place they would have launched an invasion of pakistan light ages ago.

19 posted on 04/30/2006 9:06:46 PM PDT by The Lion Roars
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To: The Lion Roars

The Paki army takes on Waziristan whenever there is international pressure on it & the media rarely gets to see what goes on there..........hope u get my drift.

About India joining the WOT if there was no terror in Kashmir-well reorient the question & ask would the US & others cooperate with India if Sept 11th didn't take place????There is no place for values in international relations.


20 posted on 04/30/2006 9:17:52 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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