The five Bangladeshi workers abducted in Afghanistan are in good health and Afghanistan is trying to rescue them, the Afghan ambassador in Bangladesh has said.
Abdul Rahim Oraz told the expatriates' welfare minister, Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, in Dhaka on Tuesday that the Afghan government was regularly enquiring about the abductees.
Unidentified gunmen kidnapped seven Bangladeshi construction workers in a northern Afghan province of Balkh on December 19 last year. Two of seven workers were released on December 21. The abducted men were employees of a South Korean road construction company.
Oraz, however, could not say clearly when it would be possible to rescue them.
A delegation led by the Afghan ambassador met the minister to recruit construction workers from Bangladesh to Afghanistan.
After the meeting, the expatriates' welfare minister told reporters the Afghan government had recently embarked on massive construction works in the war-torn country.
Mosharraf said the Afghan authorities wanted to hire scores of skilled workers from Bangladesh and that the Afghan envoy assured him of providing security to the Bangladeshi workers.
'They have been told to make a formal proposal to take manpower from Bangladesh. When we
get their proposal, we
will send a delegation there to examine the possibilities.
'We will not send people there if there is any security risk.'
Referring to the government initiatives to send manpower to Iraq, the overseas employment minister said war was not taking place in all parts of Iraq and Afghanistan. 'It will all depend on the report of the teams whether we will send manpower.'
About the latest situation in Malaysia, he said a delegation of the Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training would go to the southeast Asian country soon carrying 100,000 hand written passports.
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