Taliban link Swiss tourists release with Afias freedom

The Pakistani Talibans number two commander says his group has the custody of two kidnapped Swiss tourists. The Swiss pair was abducted in the southwest Baluchistan province earlier this month.Taliban commander Waliur Rehman spoke to media on in South Waziristan, a northwest tribal region. He says his group ordered the kidnapping in order to gain freedom for Aafia Siddiqui, a US-educated mother of three who is serving 86 years in an American jail for trying to kill US officials in Afghanistan.Rehman says the Swiss have not been tortured.But he says that if Siddiqui is not freed, a Taliban court will decide the fate of the pair.