A disgusting and cowardly act aimed at those who came to Pakistan to help Afghan refugees.
I hope that everyone involved in this are either caught, or preferably killed as an example to the rest of their foul kind.
Gunmen kidnap UN official in Pakistan | World news | guardian.co.uk
Gunmen kidnapped an American UN official and killed his driver in south-western Pakistan today.
John Solecki, the head of the UN refugee office in Quetta was abducted on his way to work, said a senior police official, Khalid Masood.
“Solecki has been serving in Quetta for more than two years,” Masood told the Associated Press. “We cannot speculate on the motive behind the crime.”
Authorities sealed exit routes from the city in an attempt to track down the abductors, said another police official, Wazir Khan Nasir.
Solecki did not have a police escort while he was travelling, Masood said. His office and home had security, including police, according to Nasir.
“We had given adequate security to him,” Nasir said. “We also had a meeting with him, and we had fulfilled all requirements he had discussed with us.”
South-western Pakistan is the scene of a low-level insurgency driven by nationalist groups who want more autonomy for Baluchistan province. Unlike the Taliban and al-Qaida militants in the north-west, the Baluch groups are not known to target foreigners. However, general crime has been on the rise, with kidnappings for ransom a favourite tactic.
An Iranian diplomat was abducted in the north-western city of Peshawar last year, and Afghans and other foreigners have been kidnapped.
A UN spokeswoman in Islamabad, Amena Kamaal, confirmed that a Pakistani driver was killed and a foreign national employee’s whereabouts were unknown.
A US embassy spokesman, Lou Fintor, said American officials were looking into the reports.
Quetta is the capital of Baluchistan province, which partly borders Afghanistan. The city is rumoured to be home to the Taliban leader Mullah Omar, who is believed to have fled Afghanistan after the US invasion in 2001.
The UN high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR) has worked for years in the region to help Afghans fleeing violence in their homeland.