Efforts to free the three Indian hostages held in Iraq since July 21 were revived on Tuesday with the captives' Kuwaiti employer establishing an indirect contact with the abductors after a day's break and hoping for a 'positive outcome'.
"Some old Iraqi friends have started talking to them (the abductors)," KGL spokesperson Rana Abu-Zaineh told PTI over phone from Kuwait without giving any details of the talks.
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Zaineh, however, said the abductors had so far not responded to KGL's proposal for deputing a new negotiator on their behalf after the company refused to talk to Sheikh Hisham Al-Dulaimi, a tribal leader who had been mediating till Sunday.
Negotiations to free Tilak Raj, Antaryami and Sukhdeo Singh, abducted in Iraq on July 21, went into a limbo yesterday as the two sides had become incommunicado after KGL pulled out of talks on Sunday.