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| Gunmen kidnap Afghan government adviser in Pakistan |
| 2008-11-03 |
| Gunmen in Pakistan have kidnapped an Afghan government adviser visiting relatives in a northwestern border region, police said Monday, the third prominent Afghan kidnapped in Pakistan in recent weeks. Akhtar Kohistani, an adviser at the Afghan Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development, was abducted in Seerdoor Kadak, a village in Pakistan's northwestern Chitral district, while visiting his in-laws. Chitral is opposite the insurgency-plagued Afghan provinces of Kunar and Nuristan. "Unidentified armed men broke into his in-laws' house last night and took him away," said Chitral police chief Sher Akbar Khan. Khan said the motive for the abduction was not known and his men were investigating. Late last week, gunmen kidnapped Zia-ul-Haq, a brother of Afghan Finance Minister Anwar Ul-Haq Ahady, in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, security officials said. Pakistani police are also searching for Afghanistan's top diplomat in Pakistan, ambassador-designate Abdul Khaliq Farahi, who was kidnapped on September 22 in Peshawar. |
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