Gunmen kidnapped a foreign doctor working with the International Committee of the Red Thingy (ICRC) in Quetta on Thursday, police officials said.| That's what foreigners are for, in that part of the world. |
The doctor was travelling to the Red Thingy office when he was stopped by gunnies who forced him into their vehicle and drove away, police sources said.
An ICRC official confirmed that one of their employees, a foreign national, was kidnapped in Quetta.
"We are checking all routes out of the districts, but we have not been able to trace that vehicle. We are trying to ensure that the vehicle does not leave Quetta," Nazeer Kurd, a senior city police official, told news hounds.
Four health workers, including two doctors, were kidnapped by gunnies last week from the Pishin area of Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
, near Quetta. They were freed after a shootout between police and their kidnappers.
The Pak Taliban said on Thursday they had killed 15 soldiers kidnapped last month in Dire Revenge™ for military operations against them.