The Swat Taliban released a senior Swat district official and six of his Frontier Corps bodyguards after kidnapping them as they travelled to the town of Mingora. The government freed three Taliban fighters who were detained in the provincial capital of Peshawar. The incident was a violation of the ceasefire agreed upon by Swat Taliban leader Mullah Fazlullah' and the government and military.
“The government has released two (of) our men and soon they will release the third," said Muslim Khan, the spokesman for the Swat Taliban. "The government violated the agreement by arresting our men in Peshawar and killing [another] in Dir that is why we had to do this.”
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