[HERALD.DAWN] Forrmer and serving coppers will tell you that three kinds of people or groups are involved in kidnapping for ransom. The first category comprises organised criminal gangs which kidnap people mainly for money. These gangs are mostly involved in the abduction of wealthy businessmen. Sometimes, these gangs are hired by people to settle personal scores with rivals. Most of these gangs keep their victims within the settled areas, but some transfer their prey to the tribal areas where, according to police officials, "all shades of criminals blend into one another."The second category consists of those trained by banned krazed killer groups, often linked to the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Such groups use kidnapping as a source of revenue for their activities or as a pressure tactic to secure the release of their jugged
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activists or both. Police believe that the krazed killer groups involved in kidnappings have developed close links in recent years with criminal gangs that "provide temporary lodging and logistical support" to the kidnappers in return for money. Usually it is the krazed killer groups that select the targets and timings but coppers say they are also "open to suggestions from their local controllers". A retired police officer, who has worked on kidnapping-for-ransom cases, explains that criminal gangs make money by facilitating the snuffies in reaching their target and helping the kidnappers in transporting the kidnapped person to the tribal areas. "Militant groups cannot successfully carry out this kind of operation, especially in [the] case of high-profile kidnappings, without the help of their local controllers," he says.