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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan: Afghanistan's Taliban said on Sunday they would kill some of their 22 South Korean hostages unless progress was made by noon on Monday (0730 GMT) on their demand for the release of jailed militants.
The Taliban leadership committee had decided that if the Afghan and South Korean governments "don't pay attention to this issue by tomorrow 12 o'clock, the Taliban will kill some Korean hostages", a militant spokesman told AFP.
The decision was made after the leadership committee decided that the government were not paying adequate attention to their demands, spokesman Yousuf Ahmadi told AFP.
The Afghan government said earlier on Sunday that it wanted the 16 women in the group of Christian aid workers abducted 10 days ago to be freed before it would consider any Taliban demands.
But one of the leading members of the negotiating team told AFP that a release of prisoners was not up for discussion.
The government was widely criticised when it released five Taliban prisoners in March to free an Italian hostage and Karzai vowed afterwards such a deal would not be repeated.
- AFP/so
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