Whisked away: Multinational company’s employees kidnapped

The men were taken to an unknown place by the abductors and their whereabouts are not currently known.


Our Correspondent July 30, 2013
The men were taken to an unknown place by the abductors and their whereabouts are not currently known. PHOTO: FILE

MIRANSHAH:


Two employees of a multinational company were reportedly kidnapped by unidentified persons in Esorhe village, North Waziristan Agency on Wednesday.


An official of the political administration said Khan Daraz and Madad Gul, employees of Pepsi, had travelled to a small business in Mirali to supply bottles of the beverage to the owner. On their way back to Bannu, unidentified armed men intercepted their vehicle and took both men hostage at gunpoint, leaving the car behind.

The political administration official added a pedestrian later spotted the abandoned vehicle. He informed the political administration and khasadar officials after which a search operation was launched in the area. However, the men were nowhere to be found and no arrests were made till the filing of this report.

According to the official, the men were taken to an unknown place by the abductors and their whereabouts are not currently known. He added both Daraz and Gul used to travel from Bannu to Mirali and Miranshah in a van to supply Pepsi to local businesses.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 31st, 2013.

COMMENTS (2)

SayWhat? | 10 years ago | Reply Money is must for good deed or bad, by hook or be crook, by donation or by coersion. So the West is not wrong about tracking the terrorists through the "money trail". No wonder underground methods like smuggling, hundi, parchi, drug traficking, kidnapping and robberies are a must for extremists cause to survive. It's very simple then to choke the neck by the force of law than by "force" of equal violence.
LuvPak | 10 years ago | Reply

Well, that's how our "resourceful" extremists fund their activiites when overseas funds get delayed, by kidnapping for ransom and robary of all shape and size that is.

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