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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Search Search: Pakistan probes group's claim of holding American By ZARAR KHAN,Associated Press Writer AP - Monday, February 9 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani police are investigating a purported separatist group's claim to be holding a kidnapped American U.N. worker, an officer said Sunday, a day after Islamist militants close to the Afghan border said they had killed a Polish geologist. Pakistan has seen a rash of kidnappings and attacks on foreigners in recent months, mostly blamed on al-Qaida and Taliban militants seeking to destabilize the secular government and punish it for supporting the U.S.-led war in neighboring Afghanistan. American John Solecki was seized last Monday in Quetta in the southern Pakistan province of Baluchistan as he drove to work at the offices of the U.N. refugee agency there. Quetta's chief investigator Wazir Khan Nasir said a previously unknown ethnic Baluch separatist group called the Baluchistan Liberation United Front telephoned a local journalist Saturday to claim responsibility. He did not say what the group's demands were. "We are vigorously looking into the matter," Nasir told the AP. Pakistan-based Online International News Network quoted a spokesman for the front as saying Solecki was kidnapped to highlight the Baluch campaign for independence. The group has demanded the release of 141 Baluch women allegedly detained by Pakistani authorities and that the U.N. "solve the issue of Baluchistan under the Geneva Convention," he said. He said it was the front's first kidnapping but warned of others if the demands were not met. The natural-gas-rich region is home to a decades long insurgency, but westerners had never been targeted previously. In previous years, Chinese technicians working on different projects were targeted in Baluchistan thrice. There was no official confirmation Sunday that the Polish hostage, Piotr Stanczak, was dead, but Poland's prime minister, Donald Tusk, said Saturday that Warsaw had received "informal" word that the kidnappers had killed their victim. A spokesman for Taliban militants operating around the town of Darra Adam Khel in northwest Pakistan said Stanczak was "slaughtered" because the government had missed a deadline to release 26 prisoners. The spokesman, who said he went by the single name Mohammad, said authorities had offered to free only four. He spoke to The Associated Press by telephone from an undisclosed location. Armed men pulled Stanczak from his car on Sept. 28 after killing three Pakistanis traveling with him near the city of Attock. Stanczak had been surveying oil and gas fields in the region. If confirmed, Stanczak's death would appear to be the first killing of a Western hostage in Pakistan since U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl was beheaded in 2002. Two diplomats _ an Iranian and an Afghan _ as well as a Chinese telecoms engineer are also being held by kidnappers, and an American aid worker was fatally shot in the main northwestern city of Peshawar in November. Officials say Stanczak's kidnappers have also been demanding the withdrawal of Pakistani security forces from the northwest, where the army is embroiled in fierce fighting against Islamist militants in several regions. ___ Associated Press Abdul Satter in Quetta contributed to this report. Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Recommend this article Average (0 votes) Sign in to recommend this article » Most Recommended Stories » Related Articles: Asia Pacific Afghan national drink, tea, good at all hoursAP - 59 minutes ago Sri Lanka military: 15,000 civilians flee war zoneAP - 1 hour 9 minutes ago 2 US soldiers defusing bomb killed in AfghanistanAP - 1 hour 53 minutes ago Ferries collide in Bangladesh, 10 dieAP - 2 hours 19 minutes ago Sri Lanka navy destroys 2 rebel boatsAP - 2 hours 58 minutes ago Most Popular – Asia Pacific Viewed Bus-sized boa slithers into record books Unnatural selection: How far will parents go? Britain probing link between bonuses, risk-taking US Air Force orders 15 Boeing C-17s Amid deepening economic gloom, some see hope View Complete List » Search: Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Copyright © 2009 Yahoo! Southeast Asia Pte Ltd. (Co. Reg. No. 199700735D). All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy - Terms of Service - Community - Intellectual Property Rights Policy - Help

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