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Confusion over Taleban releases | |
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Hopes that the Taleban in Afghanistan might release two South Korean hostages have been thrown into disarray. | |
A Taleban spokesman told reporters on Saturday that the two had already been freed - but he now says the timing of the release has yet to be decided. | |
The women - both of whom are ill - are among 21 South Korean aid workers kidnapped last month. | |
South Korean officials have held direct talks with the Taleban, who want their militants released from Afghan jails. | |
Taleban spokesman Yusuf Ahmadi on Sunday said the two ill hostages would be freed because of progress made during two days of talks in the central city of Ghazni. | |
However he added: "The time hasn't been decided. It could be today." | |
Mr Ahmadi has at times given false information, reports the BBC's Charles Haviland in Kabul. | |
The Taleban have already killed two of the Koreans, including the leader of the group. | |
The South Korean Christian aid workers were seized on 19 July. | |
The original group of 23 - most of them women - was captured on the main road from Kabul to Kandahar. | |
It is thought the South Korean aid workers are being held in a number of small groups in a village about 10km (six miles) from Ghazni. | It is thought the South Korean aid workers are being held in a number of small groups in a village about 10km (six miles) from Ghazni. |
The Afghan government, stung by criticism over a previous prisoner exchange, has ruled out a swap to secure the release of the Koreans. |