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Pakistani police hunt for kidnapped UN official

PAKISTAN: Pakistani police said on Tuesday they had rounded up about a dozen people for questioning in the search for a senior U.N. refugee agency official abducted in the city of Quetta.

American John Solecki, head of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) office in the southwestern province of Baluchistan was abducted on Monday after gunmen ambushed his vehicle and killed his driver.

Attacks on foreign aid workers, company employees and diplomats have increased in Pakistan over the past year, especially in areas near the border with Afghanistan, where Taliban and al Qaeda militants are battling government forces.

Thousands of foreign company employees, aid workers and diplomats are based in Pakistan. Few companies or aid groups have pulled out of the country, but most organisations have restricted travel to dangerous areas.

Senior Quetta police officer Wazir Khan Nasir said about a dozen people with criminal links had been detained for questioning in the hope of uncovering clues to Solecki's abductors and his whereabouts.

QUETTA, Reuters

 

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