Kidnappers of American in Pakistan extend deadline

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Source: Reuters

QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - An unknown militant group holding hostage an American working for the United Nations in Pakistan said on Monday it had extended a deadline they had set to kill him if their demands were not met.

The group, calling itself the Baluchistan Liberation United Front (BLUF) had said on Friday it would kill John Solecki in 72 hours, but on Monday a spokesman said more time would be given for the government to accede to its demands.

"We are giving more days for the government to accept our demands," Shahiq Baluch, the BLUF spokesman, said in a telephone call to the Press Club in Quetta, the capital of the southwest province of Baluchistan.

Solecki, the head of the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Quetta, was kidnapped on Feb. 2 after gunmen ambushed his car and shot dead the driver.



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1. so there really are 141 women prisoners!

I posted this news yesterday when the 141 women were thought to be a fantasy.

this incident bares watching.