JALALABAD, Afghanistan, 24 July 2005 — Kidnappers have abducted three Afghan electoral workers in an area of eastern Afghanistan where a female colleague was wounded in an attack days earlier, an official said yesterday.
“Three male electoral workers were kidnapped Thursday from Kamdesh district of Nuristan province, some 80 kilometers from the Pakistani border,” Abdul Wakeel Attack, a spokesman for the Nuristan governor, told AFP.
On Monday suspected Taleban militants shot and wounded an Afghan woman registering voters in Kamdesh, some 210 kilometers northeast of the capital Kabul.
The UN-backed Afghan Joint Electoral Management Body — which is preparing for landmark parliamentary polls in September — was trying to confirm the reports of the kidnappings.
Senior Afghan Judge Gunned Down
Two armed men riding a motorcycle yesterday gunned down a senior Afghan judge in Afghanistan’s southern province of Kandahar, the former stronghold of Taleban spiritual leader, Mulla Mohammad Omar, officials said. Nimat-ullh, the head of Panjwayee primary court was gunned down early yesterday morning soon after he left his home to pray at the nearby mosque, according to Niaz Mohammad, the district governor of Panjwayee.
