Taliban set 1300 tomorrow as last hostage deadline

KABUL, July 29 (Reuters) Taliban leaders set 1300 ist tomorrow as the last deadline for the Korean hostages, a rebel spokesman said today, and said the group will start killing the captives if Taliban prisoners were not freed by then.

''Since the talks between us, the Kabul administration and Korean government have reached deadlock and they are not honest ... so, we will start killing the hostages if they do not start releasing our prisoners by tomorrow at 12 o'clock,'' Qari Mohammad Yousuf said.

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