QUETTA: Eight Pakistani employees of a US-based aid organisation are missing and feared kidnapped in the volatile southwest bordering Afghanistan, a senior government official said on Tuesday.
The American Refugee Committee (ARC) employees were returning from an Afghan refugee camp in Pishin in Balochistan province on Monday evening when they went missing.
“They distributed some relief goods among the refugees and were probably kidnapped on their way back to Quetta,” Pishin’s deputy commissioner Mansoor Kakar told Reuters, referring to the provincial capital. Pishin is about 50 km from Quetta. “Efforts are underway to recover them.”
Kakar said it was not clear who was behind the possible kidnapping. “We don’t have any clue so far.”
ARC has worked in refugee camps near Quetta since 2002, focusing on providing health care and training members of the community in basic health services, according to the ARC website. It began operating in northern parts of Pakistan after 2005 devastating earthquake.
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