Kenyan aid worker missing in Pakistan: police

ISLAMABAD: A Kenyan aid worker and his Pakistani driver working for an international charity are missing, feared abducted in southern Pakistan, police said on Monday. Police official Saqib Ismail said the Kenyan works for Care International and that his car was found abandoned in the town of Noshero Feroz on Sunday. Since then, there has been no news of about the men’s whereabouts. Six foreigners, four of them aid and development workers, have already been abducted since July in nuclear-armed Pakistan, where US forces last year killed Osama bin Laden and which stands on the frontline of a Taliban insurgency. The Kenyan is missing in Pakistan’s southern province of Sindh in an area badly affected by devastating floods in 2010...

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Police arrests four in kidnapping of Western aid workers

MULTAN: Police in Kot Addu have arrested four people in connection with last week’s kidnapping of two Western aid workers, local police officials told Reuters on Monday. Gunmen stormed the workers’ residence in the town located in Punjab province and drove away with the two aid workers —an Italian national, and another police believe to be a German national. The provincial police chief said that the aid workers, who were working on a project in southern Punjab, are being held for ransom. “That is all we can confirm, that they were abducted for ransom. At the moment, we cannot provide any more details or say anything about who is behind it,” Javed Iqbal told reporters in Lahore. Answering a question regarding Shahbaz...

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