Sardar Shah, a police official of the Satellite Town cop shoppe told Dawn.com that Muhammad Hashim who works in the passport section of Afghan Consulate Quetta had gone missing on July 25.
He said Siddiqullah, the son of the missing Afghan official, has lodged an FIR in Satellite Town cop shoppe.
"We have no information about the whereabouts of my father since July 25," Siddiqullah was quoted by police while registering the case.
Afghan Consul General Ghullam Muhammad Bahadur has also confirmed to journalists that the consulate had lost contact with Muhammad Hashim since Tuesday.
Bahadur said the consulate was in close contact with the government 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...
for Muhammad Hashim's recovery.
Kidnapping for ransom has increased in Quetta and other parts of Balochistan. Gangs involved in kidnapping for ransom are so influential that despite tall claims on the part of government, the incidents of abductions were on the rise.
Former Deputy Inspector General Police Operations, Hamid Shakeel once told news hounds that 78 gangs involved in kidnapping for ransom were operating in Quetta city alone.