Crashed Pak helicopter transported to Kabul

ISLAMABAD: Afghan powers transported the chopper, which had crashlanded in Logar, to Kabul on Friday as endeavors for the recuperation of the team proceeded.

Sources said that the chopper was relied upon to be given over to Pakistan through the Torkham outskirt crossing at some point today (Sunday), reported Geo News.

The Punjab government's helicopter, on the way to Russia for a normal redesign, crash-arrived in the unsettled Logar region in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday.

"Formal and casual channels are being utilized to guarantee safe recuperation of the whole group," Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said in an announcement from his office.

Then, the Afghan barrier service said it had propelled a test into the occurrence. "We have dispatched an examination concerning the episode and the legislature has educated security powers to save no endeavors to secure the arrival of group individuals," the Afghan guard service said in an announcement.

The destiny of the travelers on board the flying machine was still indistinct, yet a Taliban administrator asserted the seven were "in safe hands" with the activists.

A senior Afghan Taliban leader, chatting on state of secrecy, told a news organization that the travelers — six Pakistanis and a Russian specialist — were in their guardianship and that transactions for their discharge were progressing. "They are being taken care of, being given tea, sustenance, everything," he said. "We are in contact with the Pakistani authorities. We passed on to them that they are in safe hands."

He included that it was of no utilization to look for assistance from the Afghan government or the US military on the grounds that the Taliban were in full control of the locale.