...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...
on Thursday, officials said.
The incident happened in Tump town, Kechh district, some 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) southwest of Quetta, the capital of the oil and gas rich province bordering Iran and Afghanistan.
"The deputy commissioner and the assistant commissioner of Kechh district were returning after a meeting with Iranian border officials when they were intercepted by dozens of gunnies," provincial home secretary Adil Gilani told AFP.
He said the gunnies overpowered at least 18 staff and security personnel accompanying the two officials and ordered the convoy to follow them.
The gunnies later allowed the staff and security personnel to go but took away the deputy commissioner and assistant commissioner.
Another senior local official Abdul Fateh Bhangar confirmed the incident.
No group has so far grabbed credit but Balochistan, one of Pakistain's most unstable provinces, is rife with separatist and Islamist gunnies and is plagued by sectarian bloodshed.