Afghanistan Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani has met new Indian envoy to the country Vinay Kumar and assured him that Afghan security forces will not spare any effort to ensure the safety and release of seven Indian engineers abducted by the Taliban gunmen in the restive northern Baghlan province.
During the meeting with the Indian ambassador, Rabbani expressed grief and sorrow over the abduction of the Indian engineers and said that the Afghan security forces will not spare any effort to protect the safety and secure the release of the Indians.
He said efforts have been initiated through the community elders to help secure their release. Rabbani also had a telephone conversation with External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj regarding the abduction of the seven Indian engineers of KEC International, an RPG group company.
Swaraj had conveyed India’s concerns about the abducted Indians and requested him for help in tracing and freeing them.
The abducted Indian engineers were working on a project for the construction of a power sub-station. They were abducted by the terrorists from the vicinity of Cheshma-e-Sher area on Sunday while they were going to inspect the work on the project. An eyewitness said he saw a number of armed men stopping a white coloured car on Pul-i-Khumri-Mazar-i-Sharif highway.