| [Pak Daily Times] A British woman, along with three of her Afghan colleagues, was kidnapped by gunnies in a remote part of Afghanistan, Afghan police chief Khalilullah Ziayee said on Sunday. The police chief for Kunar province, a rugged region bordering Pakistain, said they were kidnapped while visiting an unspecified project in the area. Khalilullah Ziayee described the abductors as gunnies and said a search was launched to find the group. The motive behind the kidnapping was not immediately clear. A front man for the Taliban earlier said he was unaware of the incident. In a brief statement, Britain's Foreign Office confirmed it was urgently investigating reports that a British citizen had gone missing in the country. Kunar is an area held by the Taliban and is known for a series of foreign kidnappings in recent years. The gunnies are also holding two French journalists they seized last December to the north-east of Kabul. |