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Pak Ambassador being held by Afghan Taliban captors

	April 21, 2008

Pakistan’s Ambassador to Afghanistan, who went missing in February in the Khyber region, appeared on Arabic television on April 19 saying he was being held by the Taliban and urged Islamabad to meet their demands. Ambassador Tariq Azizuddin appeared in a video tape on Al Arabia television surrounded by armed militants to make his first public statement since going missing. His captors wore Afghan robes and two of them held assault rifles but were not pointing them at him as he spok ...