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Twenty-three Hindus kidnapped from Balochistan: official
2012-03-04
[Dawn] The incidents of kidnapping for ransom and other heinous crimes in Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
have been increased as the government official revealed that 23 members of the Hindu community were kidnapped from the province over a period of several months.

The rise in kidnapping had forced the Hindu community to migrate from Balochistan to other parts of the country.

Talking to DawnNews here on Saturday, Provincial Home Secretary Naseebullah Bazai said that 70 people were kidnapped from the Quetta Division alone during the last three months.

According to Bazai, 53 of the kidnapped had been recovered so far, while the others were yet to be traced.

He said an anti-kidnapping force had been formed to curb the incidents in the province.

On the political front, the Home Secretary revealed that cases against 83 politicians had been taken back after the introduction of the Balochistan package

"We are taking back these cases on the direction of the federal government," he said.
Posted by:Fred

#2  Hindus in Balochistan? You would think that by now they would have figured out that Pakistan is not the nicest place to live.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2012-03-04 17:30  

#1  Kidnap for ransom is permitted under the Koran.

Knowing that and seeing the number of non-Muslims being kidnapped each month, you'd have to have a strong appetite for risk or death to travel to the Islamic world today.
Posted by: American Delight   2012-03-04 07:45  

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