Members of Afghanistan's Solidarity Party hold posters during a protest against the government's lack of action to try to find a group of men from the minority Afghan Shiite Hazara community who were abducted in February, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, April 16, 2015. Tens chanted slogans against the Taliban and the Islamic State group who were allegedly responsible for the kidnapping of the 31 Hazara men and boys. Persian on the poster, right, reads, "if you stay silent against the Taliban, warlords, and traitors in the presidential palace, tomorrow it will be your children's turn to be beheaded." (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)
A provincial official in Afghanistan says kidnappers have released 19 Hazara hostages kidnapped in February in exchange for 22 Uzbeks in the country.
Asadullah Kakar, a provincial council member in southern Zabul province, says that the exchange took place in Jaghori district of Ghazni province today.
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