ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday said the legislature was utilizing "formal and casual channels" to look for the arrival of seven travelers of a slammed helicopter who were allegedly abducted by the Taliban in Afghanistan.The Punjab government helicopter, in transit to Russia for a standard update, crash-arrived in the unsettled Logar territory in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday.
"Formal and casual channels are being utilized to guarantee safe recuperation of the whole team," Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said in an announcement from his office.
Head of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif additionally called Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Friday to demand his nation's assistance.
"Afghan President Ashraf Ghani guaranteed all conceivable help with this respect," tweeted ISPR representative Lt-Gen Asim Bajwa.
On Thursday, the armed force boss had reached top US leader in Afghanistan General John Nicholson requesting his global military coalition's assistance in recuperating the men.
"Afghan govt and ANA powers have likewise been reached for important help with recuperation of the group individuals while on its approach to Russia by means of Uzbekistan. Helicopter was going to Russia for upkeep. Gen Nicolson guaranteed all conceivable help in such manner," said a tweet from Lt-Gen Bajwa on Thursday night.
"Endeavors are in top apparatus for early recuperation of the team and pilots of the chopper… Prayers for my dear companions' sheltered return," tweeted Shahbaz Sharif, the central pastor of the Punjab commonplace government that works the helicopter.
Remote Office representative Nafees Zakaria said the airplane had authorization to fly over Afghan air space on its approach to Uzbekistan facilitate north to overhaul.
Prior today, the Foreign Office said it was all the while sitting tight for an answer from the Afghan government over the area of the slammed helicopter and the seven travelers on board.
The Foreign Office said the Afghan government had not given any data to Pakistan notwithstanding a slip of 24 hours into the episode.
In the interim, the Afghan resistance service said it had propelled a test into the occurrence.
"We have dispatched an examination concerning the incident...and the legislature has taught security strengths to save no endeavors to secure the arrival of the group individuals," the Afghan guard service said in an announcement.
Taliban say travelers 'in safe hands'
The destiny of the travelers on board the air ship was still hazy, yet a Taliban leader guaranteed the seven were "in safe hands" with the activists.
A senior Afghan Taliban administrator, talking on state of obscurity, told news office Reuters that the travelers — six Pakistanis and a Russian professional — were in their guardianship and that transactions for their discharge were continuous.
"They are being cared for, 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 no utilization looking for assistance from the Afghan government or US military, in light of the fact that the Taliban are in full control of the area.
The Pakistani government or military did not straightforwardly affirm direct converses with the Taliban or that the travelers were caught by the activists, yet authorities said they were doing everything conceivable.
Afghan media and authorities likewise reported that the seven individuals on board were abducted by the Taliban.
The neighborhood locale senator Hamidullah Hamid said seven individuals on board had been abducted by Taliban guerillas.
"They have been taken to an obscure area," he said.
The helicopter burst into flames after it slammed, said Logar's representative Salim Saleh.
Logar region has been progressively uncivilized since the dispatch two years prior of a military operation in neighboring Pakistani tribal regions pushed numerous Taliban aggressors into Afghanistan.
Helicopter transported to Kabul
As endeavors for the recuperation of group proceed with, Afghan powers transported the chopper, which had crash-arrived in Logar, to Kabul on Friday.
Sources educated that the chopper is relied upon to be given over to Pakistan through Torkham outskirt crossing at some point today.
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