2 Koreans abducted in Pakistan
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E-mail Xinhua, February 29, 2012
Kidnapping of foreigners is again reported in the militancy-hit Pakistan as two more Koreans were abducted in the country's southern port city of Karachi on Wednesday.
Local media reported that two doctors of Korean nationality were kidnapped by unknown people in the Orangi town of Karachi Wednesday morning while they were driving on their way to work.
Both of the kidnapped Koreans are male doctors working for a South-Korea-run hospital in the city, said the report.
It is not known yet who kidnapped them and why.
Details about the kidnapped are also scarce at this point.
Local watchers believe that it is highly possible that the two Korean doctors were kidnapped by militants for ransom as militants in the country often abduct foreigners, especially those from developed countries or regions for higher ransom.
Wednesday's incident is the third of its kind reported in Pakistan since this year.
In January 5, a British doctor of Yemeni origin who worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross Pakistan was kidnapped from Pakistan's southwest city of Quetta, followed by another report about the kidnapping of two foreigners on January 20. In the second incident, a German and an Italian who both worked for an NGO for the flood relief in Pakistan were kidnapped from Multan, a city in central Pakistan.
In 2011, at least three kidnappings of foreigners were reported in Pakistan. A Swiss couple was first reportedly kidnapped while traveling in Pakistan's southwest province of Balochistan, followed by the kidnapping of an American living in the country's eastern city of Lahore.
Up to date, there is no news about the whereabouts of all the above-mentioned kidnapped foreigners. Most of the kidnapped were later killed even after they paid the ransom. Only a few abductees could survive.
In 2011, a British journalist of Pakistani origin who was kidnapped by militants in Pakistan's northwestern tribal areas along the Afghan border was released after a huge amount of ransom was paid. He had been held and tortured by the abductors for months before he was freed.
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