Militant Group in Pakistan Threatens to Kill U.N. Hostage

UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 13 — An obscure Pakistani militant group threatened to kill a kidnapped American relief worker within 72 hours unless Pakistani authorities release 141 women from prison, U.N. officials and news service reports said Friday.

But don’t worry! Pakistan said they have good leads.

“We have sufficient good leads which I cannot share right now. I hope to God and pray to God and inshallah we will succeed in recovering him,” Malik told reporters after meeting top officials.
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The previously unknown Baluch United Liberation Front, which claimed Solecki’s abduction in a telephone call to local media last week, has demanded the release of of 141 women Baluch detainees they say are in Pakistani custody.

But Malik denied any Baluch women were in custody and condemned the kidnappers as “anti-Pakistan and anti-Islam.”

Meanwhile:

Suspected US drone attack kills 30 in Pakistan

Update: Speaking of Pakistan

Pakistan Militants Kidnap Christian Mother, Two Children
DANDPUR KHARROLIAN, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)– An impoverished Christian man in Pakistan was still searching for his wife and two small children on Valentine’s Day Saturday, February 14, nearly one month after they were allegedly kidnapped by Muslim militants because he refused to abandon his faith in Jesus Christ.
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On January 19, after he left for work, “Muhammad Asghar and his three other unknown accomplices forced their way” into his home, he claimed. “They kidnapped by spouse Iram 28, my son Suhail, 6, and my breast feeding daughter Maryam at gun point,” he said, his voice trembling.

Neighbors of Masih told BosNewsLife the perpetrators arrived in a black car, without a registration plate. They said the kidnappers “were armed with deadly firearms and entered Pervez Masih’s house brandishing weapons in the air”. Neighbors said they saw that gunmen forced Masih’s wife and children to sit in the car at gun point, before leaving to an unknown destination.

Pervez Masih said police were “reluctant” to register a case against “their rich and powerful Muslim brethren.” He said police only took action “due to my persistent and repeated appeals”, however “they have neither recovered my wife and children nor arrested any of the four accused.”