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Pak Taliban claims to have killed kidnapped Polish engineer

Taliban militia have executed a Polish engineer, whom they were holding hostage, after Pakistani authorities refused to give in to their demand for release of jailed militants.

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Taliban militia have executed a Polish engineer, whom they were holding hostage, after Pakistani authorities refused to give in to their demand for release of top jailed militants, a spokesman of the group claimed on Saturday.
    
Peter Stanczak was killed on the orders of a militant commander named Tariq, the Taliban spokesman told TV channels.
    
One of the militants whose release was demanded was Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, swapped by India along with two others for passengers of the hijacked Indian Airlines plane to Kandahar in 1999, pointing to close ties between the Taliban and Pakistani militant groups.
    
Sheikh was later convicted of killing American journalist Daniel Pearl in Karachi.
    
The Taliban had earlier said they would kill Stanczak if the government did not meet their demands, including the release of 60 militants.

The Taliban earlier set Wednesday as the deadline for executing Stanczak, kidnapped in September, if their demands were not met. After differences emerged within the Taliban on executing Stanczak, the deadline was postponed till midnight on Friday night.
    
The government offered a ransom for Stanczak's release but this was not accepted by the Taliban, Dawn News channel reported.
    
Stanczak was kidnapped from Attock district in Punjab province by Taliban fighters who killed his guard, driver and another person on September 28 last year.
    
An employee of Poland-based Geofizyka Krakow, Stanczak was working on a project run by Pakistan's state-run Oil and Gas Development Company Limited at the time of his abduction.

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