Peshawar, July 30(ANI): Pakistan Taliban has admitted that it has a Swiss couple as hostages whom they kidnapped a month ago in the Balochistan province.
Olivier David Och, 31, and Daniela Widmer, 28, were abducted on July 1, while driving in Balochistan.
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Deputy Head Waliur Rehman did not provide proof that the group had the couple in its custody but said they were in good health and demanded they be exchanged for a Pakistani scientist jailed in the United States.
"The Swiss couple are with the TTP. They are at a very safe place. They are completely in good health, they are getting reasonable food and they have not fallen ill since they landed in our custody," the Daily Times quoted Rehman, as saying.
He added that the Taliban would release the couple if the US freed Aafia Siddiqui, a female neuroscientist sentenced in 2010 for the attempted murder of US government agents in Afghanistan.
"We call upon the Western world to put pressure on America for the release of Aafia Siddiqui," he said.
"If America does not agree to her release then our shura (council) will take a decision about the Swiss hostages."
Other Taliban sources confirmed TTP's claim saying hostages were now being held South Waziristan.
The Swiss Foreign Ministry reiterated that it is "continuing with their efforts to bring the two Swiss citizens back safely to Switzerland". (ANI)
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