Adventurist Globetrotters,
Please
fight the temptation to visit Pakistan. There are at least two civil wars going
on there. If you visit, there is a very
good chance that you will be either killed or kidnapped for ransom.
http://dawn.com/2013/03/14/czech-women-tourists-kidnapped-in-balochistan-officials/
Czech women tourists kidnapped in Balochistan: officials
QUETTA: Unidentified gunmen on Wednesday kidnapped two women tourists from the Czech Republic in Pakistan’s insurgency-hit southwestern province of Balochistan, officials said.
Local government officials said the women entered the province from Iran as tourists and were abducted from an area some 550 kilometres (350 miles) west of Quetta, the main town of Balochistan which borders both Iran and Afghanistan.
“Both the women were from Czech Republic and entered in Pakistan as tourists,” Akbar Hussain Durrani, the provincial home secretary told AFP.
“Gunmen stopped their bus in the Nok Kundi area of Chaghi district and abducted both of them.” Durrani said women were being escorted by a tribal policeman when they were abducted. The guard was also taken captive but was later freed.
Nobody from the Czech embassy was available to comment late Wednesday but Qambar Dashti, a senior government official in Quetta confirmed the incident.
Kidnappings plague parts of Balochistan and northwest Pakistan, where criminals looking for ransom snatch foreigners and locals, sometimes passing their hostages on to Taliban and al Qaeda-linked groups.
Balochistan has been hit by an insurgency in recent years with Baloch nationalists demanding political autonomy and a greater share of profits from the province’s wealth of natural oil, gas and mineral resources.
6 comments:
We now know the names of the kidnapped tourists: Hana Humpalova and Antonie Chrastecka. See the emotional appeal for their release here:
http://www.rferl.org/content/kidnapped-czech-women-pakistan/24930050.html
See a web page set up for Hanka and Tonka here:
http://www.hankaatoncadomu.com/
A friend believes Allah-Nazar's army has probably already sold the kidnapped girls to the Taliban. Taliban have a better mechanism to collect ransom money than the Baloch nationalists.
Realistically speaking, this case is not too hard to solve. Looking at the circumstances it is not far-fetched to believe that Hanka and Tonka were kidnapped by the Baloch nationalists—they were kidnapped from the heart of the Baloch separatists’ country. It is also fairly easy to guess that their kidnapping was planned when the tourists entered Taftan from Mir Javah. Someone in Taftan probably called someone in Dalbadin-Kharan area to inform them of the new kidnapping opportunity—a group of armed people were quickly assembled to do the job.
How this case can be solved? Besides getting witness testimonies, get a record of all the phone calls made from Taftan to outside around the time Hanka and Tonka crossed border into Pakistan. Check the person making the call and the person the call was made to. Use the process of elimination to reach to the suspects.
If Baloch nationalists are still holding the girls, put pressure on Brahmdagh Bugti (asylum seeker in Switzerland), Harbiyar Marri (asylum seeker in the UK), and other Baloch nationalist leaders living in Europe for safe and quick release of Hanka and Tonka.
Well said Cemendtaur, "If Baloch nationalists are still holding the girls, put pressure on Brahmdagh Bugti (asylum seeker in Switzerland), Harbiyar Marri (asylum seeker in the UK), and other Baloch nationalist leaders living in Europe for safe and quick release of Hanka and Tonka".
Post a Comment