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Team sent for talks

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan government dispatched a group of tribal elders and religious leaders to the Waziristan tribal agency from the North West Frontier Province town of Tank on Friday to negotiate the release of over 100 security forces personnel said to have been taken hostage by pro-Taliban militants. The soldiers went missing on Thursday when they were en route to Ladha, 40 km from Wana, the main town in the tribal agency. The incident comes within a week of the government negotiating the release of 18 Frontier Constabulary personnel, who had been held captive by militants for three weeks. The militants had taken 19 soldiers hostage, but last week, a videotape showed a young boy killing one of the soldiers.

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