Red Cross was in contact with Briton's kidnappers: Spokesman
Sean Maguire, the humanitarian organisation's spokesman in Britain, refused to say whether the captors had demanded a ransom for Khalil Dale, who was snatched in January.
Police said 60-year-old Dale's body was found near Quetta on Sunday.
He had been beheaded and a note on his mutilated body said he was killed after his captors' demands were not met.
"It's inappropriate to go into the details of any contact we might have had with the abductors," Maguire told BBC radio.
"We said that we had some contact with the abductors but we wouldn't want to give succour to future kidnappers by saying yes, we countenanced paying a ransom.
"We did everything possible to try to get Khalil out and we're very sad that our efforts failed.
"It doesn't necessarily follow that because you don't want to go into the details of any conversations that you may or may not have had that you countenance paying a ransom."
He said the organisation took a consistent and systematic approach to dealing with kidnappings.
Maguire said the Red Cross was in "horror" and would now review its operations in Pakistan.
"His death, to our mind, is senseless and barbaric," he said.
"We will take stock and review what we should be doing and what the risk-benefit balance is of operating in different parts of Pakistan."
The British government has a stated policy of not paying ransoms in hostage cases.
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@hyder ali: I think that what the anti state criminals want is for NGOs to leave and for people in Pakistan to suffer. After all, they were probably paid to harm people working to help citizens in Pakistan. It's a shame that criminals kill innocent aid workers because this only hurts common Pakistanis.
I urge a humanitarian agencies to immediately leave pakistan.
Very bad and very sad indeed. The kidnapping for the ransome in broad day light in Balochistan has become the most easy way to accumulate money followed by drug trafficking and rampant corruption in a province so deeply divided on linguistic and religious lines. The province, where there are confirmed reports of 'Honorable' ministers of the provincial government having been involved in such nafarious and horandous crimes like kidnapping for ransome, coupled with a complete shatter of writ of the Government particularly when there is a visible head on collision amongst the so called seperatist elements and the law enforcing agencies, is heading towards a havoc. This precarious law & order scenario has resulted in flight of capital, suspension of economic activity, further deepened the existing linguistic and ethnic hatreds and a historical corruption visible everywhere. What are our crimes and why are we punished so badly.................?????????
The fact that we allow the beheading of workers that are trying to help Pakistan is a direct reflection of each & every Pakistani that allows this brutal behavior to even exist. We should hang our heads in shame that the already soiled reputation of Pakistan is further enhanced making it a dangerous land for its citizens.
I guess all International NGO should either limit their staff permanently to Islamabad, Lahore etc or should replace them with local people for the safety of their own men who are not worth losing their lives in this hapless country anymore. People here lack education so badly .. we have come to a point where they doubt sincerity of any one and every one .. majority of our people are not even sincere with this country how can we expect them to respect all these selfless people who leave their comfort just to help us for the sake of humanity.