Tag: Hostages

In an emergency meeting held on Thursday, Khattak Ittehad decided to block the Indus Highway at Amberi Kalay and the Kohat Bannu road at...

A Swiss couple kidnapped in Pakistan has been smuggled into the lawless tribal belt on the Afghan border, a notorious haven for Taliban and...

A search operation has been launched and tribal elders have been engaged to help secure the release of a Swiss couple abducted in the...

New details have emerged of how two western hostages in Afghanistan were freed in exchange for a hefty ransom paid in Pakistan and the...

Less than a week ago, some Pakistani and Indian sailors of a hijacked ship (SV Suez) were released by Somali pirates on payment of...

Two French journalists reunited with their families Thursday after 18 months' captivity in Afghanistan said their Taliban captors did not hurt them, but shed...

Mutahida Qaumi Movement’s (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain hosted a dinner for rescued Pakistani hostages from Somalia. All rescued Pakistanis including Captain Wasih, 3rd Eng. Syed...

At least four Pakistani hostages among other 22 kept in captivity of Somali pirates were released on Monday after payment of huge ransom and...

GAO - Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) is demanding at least 90 million euros in ransom for the release of four French hostages held since September, a source close to mediators said on Monday.
The French people were kidnapped in September 2010 in neighbouring Niger, where France has a large stake in uranium mining, and are still being held hostage in the desert. "The kidnappers are demanding at least 90 million euros (128 million dollars) to release the four French

KARACHI - The Master Mariners Society of Pakistan (MMSP) has decided to raise the issue of the Pakistani merchant marine officers, who are in Somalian pirates' custody, in international forums. According to MMSP Office Secretary MM Ahmad Zuberi, the society is set to raise the captivity issue of the officers if the MMSP is approached by the officers' families.
The case of now-deceased MMSP life-member Capt Syed Jafer Jafri was pursued at all local and international forums by the

LONDON - As the death toll in anti-government protests in Libya since Tuesday reached at least 173 on Sunday, Islamist gunmen stormed a military arms depot in Libya and a nearby port and seized numerous weapons and army vehicles after killing four soldiers, a security official said.
"There are 173 dead," Human Rights Watch (HRW) spokesman Tom Porteous said. "It's a conservative figure based on hospital sources in eastern Libya, Benghazi and three other places. It is a very