KABUL: Unknown persons have kidnapped four election coordinators in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar, a commissioner with the Independent Election Commission Sareer Ahmed Barmal told a foreign news agency on Thursday.
Barmal said that the four men were kidnapped on Wednesday, adding that no one has taken responsibility for their abduction or demanded a ransom yet.
Moreover, he said that area elders have been meeting in an attempt to discover the identities of the kidnappers in order to negotiate the release of the men.
On March 5, the Afghan Taliban said that they have ordered their fighters to attack anyone helping organizing the April 5 presidential election in the war-torn country.
“We have given orders to all our mujahideen to use all force at their disposal to disrupt these upcoming sham elections – to target all workers, activists, callers, security apparatus and offices,” the Taliban said in a statement.
“It is the religious obligation of every Afghan to fulfill their duty by foiling the latest plot of the invaders that is guised in the garb of elections,” the statement said.
