| Gunmen on Saturday kidnapped a Pakistani engineer travelling on a road near Kandahar in insurgency-hit southern Afghanistan, a police commander has said. “A Pakistani engineer was kidnapped on the road between Kandahar city and Gereshk,” police chief Saqeb Syed Agha told AFP. The engineer, employed by an Afghan road construction company, was abducted after the gunmen opened fire and injured his driver,” Sayed said. “We have launched an operation to track the kidnappers and free the Pakistani national,” he added. The police commander refused to comment on who may have been responsible for the kidnapping. |