Taliban kills Indian couple Afghanistan News

Simon Para Mana Than alias Srinivasan, 38, an Indian who worked with an Italian company in the Afghan Herat area and was kidnapped in October last year, was murdered by the Taliban are Captor. A short press release from the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs said that the kidnapped Indian national Para Mana Than Simon died in custody of his abductors his family in India is aware.

Vasanti Para Mana Than, the victim of the 35 year old widow, confirmed message from their homes in Kallakurichi in Tamil Nadu, 230 km south of the capital here. Mana Para Than was kidnapped on October 13 last year and the Indian government were to negotiate his release. Simon's employers, an Italian company kept on delaying the negotiation process, and now he is dead.