DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan - Pro-Taliban militants on Monday freed more than 260 Pakistani troops who were kidnapped nearly two weeks ago in a restive tribal region near the border with Afghanistan, security officials and a militant said.
The soldiers were handed over to members of a jirga, or tribal council, in Ladha, a village in the South Waziristan tribal area, where they had been abducted by militants on Aug. 30, a local intelligence official said on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of his job.
Pakistan's army spokesman said he could not immediately confirm the releases.
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