Gunmen kidnapped a Pakistani national, working on a farming project, in Somalia's semi-autonomous northern region of Puntland on Sunday, a government official said. Muse Ghelle, the governor of Bari region in Puntland, told reporters the man was kidnapped from his car about 30 kilometres south of the port of Bossaso while travelling to the project. His name and employer were not immediately known. "Our security committee is meeting about this kidnapping and we are preparing to send our troops," he told Reuters. The governor said the gunmen had gone to nearby mountains where kidnappers also held two European journalists who had been captured in Puntland in November and were freed in January.