The International Committee of the Red Cross has restricted the movement of staff and cut back its activities in southwestern Pakistan after receiving threats, a spokesman said Friday. The restrictions apply in Baluchistan, Pakistan's largest province that borders Afghanistan and Iran, and where violence linked to a separatist insurgency and sectarian killings has recently surged. "We have curtailed the activities of our two offices (in provincial capital Quetta) after threats were received," ICRC spokesman Aman Ullah told AFP. "Foreign staff have not been relocated, but asked to restrict travel and local staff have been asked the same," he added. Aman Ullah said ICRC operations in Baluchistan would continue on the ground with their partners, the local Red Crescent. He declined to detail the threats. Police say sectarian and ethnic targeted killings in Baluchistan have claimed at least 87 lives and injured 303 people so far this year. John Solecki, who headed the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in Quetta, was kidnapped at gunpoint in Baluchistan's capital Quetta in February 2009 by a local militant group. He was released after two months. Solecki's driver was killed during the abduction.