QUETTA: Unidentified kidnappers have killed a senior government officer and his son, who were abducted in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province more than a month ago, and dumped their bodies in a remote, mountainous region, provincial officials said on Sunday.
Assistant Commissioner (AC) Muhammad Afzal, who was posted in Balochistan’s Ziarat resort town, was kidnapped along with his son while he was visiting a tourist spot called Zizri with his family on Aug. 10, according to police.
No group claimed responsibility for the kidnapping. In a video, which emerged last week, the kidnapped official was seen urging the government to fulfil the demands of his kidnappers without specifying those demands.
Provincial government officials said on Sunday the kidnappers had killed AC Afzal and his son, dumped their bodies in the remote, mountainous area of Khost in Harnai district, and released their pictures to journalists.
“There were reports of [the bodies being dumped at] three locations in north, south and east of the mountainous range of Khost and Zardalu,” Harnai Additional Deputy Commissioner Saleem Tareen told Arab News, adding the paramilitary Levies force and law enforcement agencies were searching for the bodies with the help of drone cameras.
