Police on Tuesday accused religious beturbanned goons over the kidnapping of a German aid worker and his Italian colleague, snatched at gunpoint five days ago.The two aid workers were dragged from the home they rented in Multan late on Thursday, bringing to six the number of Westerners kidnapped in Pakistain since July.
"The kidnappers have made no contact so far," Azhar Akram, the head of the police investigation team told AFP from Multan.
Masked gunnies snatched the two aid workers, but left behind a guard and a Western woman also staying at the house.
"It could be a simple case of kidnapping for ransom, an bully boy group may be involved or may be linked to some personal issue," he added.
The German and Italian had been working for a year to help rehabilitate villagers affected by devastating floods in 2010.
Another member of the police team confirmed that suspicion was falling on religious bully boys.
"The gunnies are believed to have taken them to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
province or some tribal town in the lawless region on Afghan border," he told AFP on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media.
On Sunday, a Kenyan aid worker also went missing with his Pak driver.
Police fear the pair have also been kidnapped.
Earlier this month, gunnies kidnapped a British man working for the International Committee of the Red Thingy in Pakistain's insurgency-hit southwestern province of Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
Last August, an American development director, Warren Weinstein, 70, was snatched from his home in Lahore and in July a Swiss couple was kidnapped while driving through Balochistan.
The Taliban claim to have the Swiss, while al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri
... Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, occasionally described as
the real brainsof the outfit, now the head cheese. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's
fatwaentitled
World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders.Currently residing in the North Wazoo area. That is not a horn growing from the middle of his forehead, but a prayer bump, attesting to how devout he is...
claims to be holding Weinstein, but the terror group has released no proof.