A Kenyan aid worker working for an international charity and his Pakistani driver are missing, feared abducted in flood-hit Naushahro Feroz district in Sindh, police said on Monday. Police official Saqib Ismail said the Kenyan works for Care International and that his car was found abandoned in Naushahro Feroz on Sunday, about three hours after he and his driver set out from the town of Sukkur. Since then, there has been no news of their whereabouts. Six foreigners, four of them aid and development workers, have already been abducted since July in the country, where US forces last year killed Osama bin Laden and which stands on the frontline of a Taliban insurgency.
Javed Suharo Jaskani, police chief of Naushahro Feroz said a foreigner aged around 40 who had been working in Pakistan for about a year was missing. “He left (the town of) Sukkur for Dadu (part of the flood-affected areas) yesterday and his car was found abandoned at Naushahro Feroz,” said Jaskani. “We believe local bandits have kidnapped him for ransom,” Jaskani said. Nothing appeared to have been taken from the vehicle, with the foreigner’s laptop and bag containing his personal effects left behind, he added. “We are hopeful he will be recovered,” Jaskani told AFP by telephone. Osman Ibrahim, Kenya’s acting high commissioner to Pakistan, told AFP that the mission was working to confirm whether the foreigner is Kenyan.