ISLAMABAD, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- Over 200 security
forces soldiers kidnapped by militants in Northwest Pakistan's South Waziristan
tribal area have been released, a local TV channel DAWNNEWS reported on Monday.
A total of 254 security forces soldiers have been
handed over to a peace jirga which has been negotiating with militants,
according to the DAWN NEWS report.
Hundreds of paramilitary soldiers from Frontier Corps
were traveling in vehicles when armed men kidnapped them in South Waziristan on
Aug. 30. The soldiers were going from Wana, the center of South Waziristan, to
Ladha, a town in the region, when abducted by the some armed militants.
The government on Aug. 31 sent a 15-member delegation of tribal elders, parliamentarians and religious clerics to talk to militants in the area in a bid to secure the release of the abducted soldiers.
