An Afghan Government official Has been kidnapped by unidentified armed men from Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, officials said on Monday.
Akhtar Kohistani, adviser to the Afghan rural
rehabilitation and development Ministry, was abducted from the home of his in-laws at Seerdor village, 50 km from Chitral district in North West Frontier Province (N.W.F.P., early Monday morning.
District police chief Sher Akbar Khan said a complaint had been registered regarding the kidnapping of Kohistani, the son-in-law of the erstwhile royal family of Chitral princely state and police has launched a search operation.
Seerdor is located just 50 km from the border with Afghanistan. No group has claimed responsibility for the abduction.
On October 31, unidentified men kidnapped the brother of the Afghan Finance Minister in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar. Zia-ul-Haq Ahadi, the brother of Finance Minister
Anwar-ul-Haq Ahadi, was returning home from a mosque when four men overpowered and took him away.
Afghanistan's Ambassador-designate to Pakistan, Abdul Khaliq Farahi, was kidnapped from Peshawar on September 22 by militants who shot dead his driver. There is no information about his whereabouts.