QUETTA - Taliban have killed a kidnapped employee of Balochistan Rural Support Programme (BRSP) after not being paid ransom money, an official confirmed.
Six employees of BRSP were kidnapped by a group of armed men from Barshore area of Pishin district, about 70-kilometer away from Quetta, on December 13th, 2011.
They had kidnapped BRSP employees including Bashir Ahmed, Altaf, Mujeeb-ur-Rehman, Naimatullah, Dawood Shah and Maqbool Ahmed.
According to an official of BRSP, the kidnapped employees were shifted to Waziristan and one person Maqbool Ahmed, resident of Kuchlak was killed.
Sources said the kidnappers sent a video showing the killing of Maqbool. However, the body of Maqbool is yet to be handed over to the heirs. When contacted Home Secretary Nasebullah Bazai, said the kidnappers were demanding Rs 250m as ransom money for the release of kidnapped employees. He said there was a group in Waziristan who allegedly kidnapped the BRSP employees. Law-enforcing agencies were making their utmost efforts to trace the kidnappers, he said ,adding, that a team by provincial government had been dispatched to receive the body.
BRSP in a statement has strongly condemned the killing of Maqbool Ahmed and announced a three-day-mourning besides demanding for arrest of culprits and safe recovery of other five hostages. BRSP is working in different parts of Balochistan on different projects including provision of clean drinking water, education and health so that the standard of people in remote areas of the province could be improved.
It is pertinent to mention here that Health Programme Manager Khalil Rasjed Dale, a British national, was kidnapped some 200 metres away from his ICRC residence in Chaman Housing Scheme Quetta, a high security zone where offices of most of the international humanitarian organisations are situated on January 5th, 2012.
The whereabouts of Dale is yet to be traced because despite the lapse of over two months, police failed to find any clue.
He is believed to be taken to tribal region in neighbouring Waziristan.