Tuesday, February 12, 2008

PAKISTANI NUCLEAR STAFF GO MISSING

Two members of Pakistan's atomic energy agency have been abducted (from the BBC):
The technicians went missing on the same day as Pakistan's ambassador to
Afghanistan, Tariq Azizuddin, was reportedly abducted in the same region.

Mr Azizuddin had been going overland from the city of Peshawar to Kabul.

Pakistan's north-west has witnessed fierce fighting between Islamist militants and government troops.

The pro-Taleban guerrillas declared a unilateral ceasefire last week after months of clashes with troops garrisoned there.

The workers from Pakistan's Atomic Energy Commission were on a mission to map mineral deposits in the mountains when they were kidnapped, police say.

"The technicians were going for some geological survey in the area when they were kidnapped at gunpoint along with their driver," Romail Akram, a senior police official, told Reuters news agency.

Their vehicle was intercepted by masked gunmen in the Dera Ismail Khan district, a stronghold of local militants.

"We don't know if the abductors were militants or members of some criminal gang," a local police chief, Akbar Nasir, told the AFP news agency. He said efforts to locate the missing men had yet to yield any results.
RELIAPUNDIT ASKS: REALLY ABDUCTED?? WHY?? WHAT DO THE TERRORISTS WANT THEM FOR!?

OR, WERE THESE STAGED ABDUCTIONS?

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