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Afghan government adviser kidnapped in Pakistan

An Afghan government adviser was kidnapped by gunmen in Pakistan, police said on Monday

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  • Published: 12:19 November 3, 2008
  • Gulf News

Chitral: An Afghan government adviser was kidnapped by gunmen in Pakistan, police said on Monday.

Akhtar Kohistani, an adviser at the Afghan Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development, was abducted in Seerdoor Kadak, a village in Pakistan's northwestern Chitral district, while visiting his in-laws.

“Unidentified armed men broke into his in-laws' house last night and took him away," said Chitral police chief Sher Akbar Khan.

Police are investigating the motive behind the abduction.

Kohistani is the third prominent Afghan official to be abducted in Pakistan recently.

Late last week, gunmen kidnapped Zia-ul-Haq, a brother of Afghan Finance Minister Anwar Ul-Haq Ahady, in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, security officials said, while Pakistani police are also searching for Afghanistan's top diplomat in Pakistan, ambassador-designate Abdul Khaliq Farahi, who was kidnapped on September 22.

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