Shahabuddin Atal

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  Speaking to Pajhwok Afghan News over the telephone, Dadullah's spokesman Shahabuddin Atal said no one had so far demanded body of the Afghan driver Sayed Agha.
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  However, Shahabuddin Atal, spokesman for Taliban commander Mulla Dadullah, denied the reports.In an audio-taped message, conveyed to Pajhwok Afghan News over the telephone, Dadullah said he doubted the government's sincerity and opted to keep the hostages in their custody.
  
  Reporter of the Rome-based La Republica daily newspaper, the 52-year-old Karachi-born journalist was kidnapped along with his two Afghan interpreters in the lawless province of Helmand on March 4.
  
  The two Afghans, Ajmal and Sayed Agha, were traveling with him as guide and driver respectively.Taliban say they have killed the driver Sayed Agha after founding him guilty of spying for the foreign troops.
  
  In an audio-taped message, received to Pajhwok Afghan News on Thursday, the Italian journalist asked for immediate help, which triggered hectic efforts to save his life.

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  Shahabuddin Atal, a purported spokesman for Dadullah, told Pajhwok that the Afghan government did not attempt to contact the group to negotiate Naqshbandi's freedom even after Mastrogiacomo's release -- which Atal claimed proves that the government does not protect its own people.

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  Taliban sources have confirmed that two men had been arrested for betraying Mullah Dadullah Akhund, a brutal and powerful military commander who was killed earlier this month. 'We have captured the spy who helped US forces kill Mullah Dadullah, said Shahabuddin Atal, a Taliban spokesman speaking by telephone from an undisclosed location.Atal said Dadullah had stopped at the suspect's house in the Bahramcha district of Afghanistan's Helmand province when he came under attack from coalition forces.Those accused of spying are brutally executed.

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  Shahabuddin Atal, a spokesman for Mullah Dadullah, the Taliban's military head, said: "We waited a lot, but the government failed to meet our demand.

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  Shahabuddin Atal, a spokesman for Mullah Dadullah, the Taliban's...

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  Taliban sources have confirmed that two men had been arrested for betraying Mullah Dadullah Akhund, a brutal and powerful military commander who was killed earlier this month. 'We have captured the spy who helped US forces kill Mullah Dadullah, said Shahabuddin Atal, a Taliban spokesman speaking by telephone from an undisclosed location.
  
  Atal said Dadullah had stopped at the suspect's house in the Bahramcha district of Afghanistan's Helmand province when he came under attack from coalition forces.Those accused of spying are brutally executed.

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  "When we demanded the exchange for the Italian journalist, the government released the prisoners, but for the Afghan journalist, the government did not care," Shahabuddin Atal, a purported Taliban spokesman, told the Associated Press.Atal said that his group beheaded Naqshbandi in the Garmsir district of Helmand province Sunday afternoon.
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  Shahabuddin Atal, who claimed to be a spokesman for the Taliban commander, Mullah Dadullah, told news agencies that Ajmal Naqshbandi, an interpreter from Kabul, had been killed Sunday.

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  Taliban sources have confirmed that two men had been arrested for betraying Mullah Dadullah Akhund, a brutal and powerful military commander who was killed earlier this month. 'We have captured the spy who helped US forces kill Mullah Dadullah, said Shahabuddin Atal, a Taliban spokesman speaking by telephone from an undisclosed location.
  
  Atal said Dadullah had stopped at the suspect's house in the Bahramcha district of Afghanistan's Helmand province when he came under attack from coalition forces.Those accused of spying are brutally executed.

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  Shahabuddin Atal, spokesman for the Taliban commander Mullah Dadullah, told Pajhwok Afghan News Friday evening they had got some positive signals from the other side.
  
  "There is some progress and some positive signals have been received," said the spokesman when pressed to comment on the course of the secret talks.
  
  Asked about the three-day extension in the deadline, Atal said everything would get clear by 3pm tomorrow (Saturday).
  
  Earlier, Taliban spokesman Qari Yousaf Ahmadi told Pajhwok Afghan News they had extended the deadline till Sunday after the statement from the Italian Foreign Ministry.
  
  However, Atal said the decision had now been changed and the deadline had been shrunk to Saturday afternoon (3pm).

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  Shahabuddin Atal, spokesman for Taliban commander Mulla Dadullah, told Pajhwok the government so far did not contact them for the release of the Afghan journalist.
  
  Asked why the Taliban did not release an Afghan when his foreign comrade was set free several days back, the spokesman said they would never harm their own countrymen.
  
  Taliban had beheaded Sayed Agha, driver of the Italian journalist, on charges of spying for the foreign troops.Soon after their kidnapping in Nad Ali district of Helmand, the three people were accused of spying.
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  Accusing the government of agreeing to every fair and false means to ensure safety of foreigners, Atal said they wanted to prove to the people that the rulers had no soft corner for their own nationals.

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