Pakistan Ambassador to Afghanistan Kidnapped?

Pakistan’s Ambassador to Afghanistan, Tariq Azizuddin, has been reportedly kidnapped. Reuters says that the Ambassador was on his way to Kabul from the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar when he went missing along with his driver and bodyguard in the Khyber tribal region.

At around the same time, two Pakistani nuclear technicians were kidnapped in the northwest. Now the million dollar question. Why was the Ambassador travelling by road to Kabul…said to be the most dangerous/unsafe regions in the world? Did the Pakistani authorities think that he was travelling between the New York City and the Long Island? Why did Pakistan military regime endanger the life of the Ambassador?

It is becoming increasingly difficult to believe the Pakistani authorities’ version whenever a major event takes place, especially post-Benazir Bhutto assassination, as to what is true and what is kite flying. “A security official said the envoy was to change cars at the border but he did not show up and was believed to have not reached the border.

“Pakistani authorities were reluctant to say if Azizuddin had been kidnapped, and refused to comment on media reports that militants had offered to release the envoy in exchange for a Taliban commander, Mullah Mansour Dadullah, who was caught on Monday.

“Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai was sure the envoy had been snatched. ‘The Pakistan ambassador to Afghanistan has been kidnapped while traveling to Afghanistan,’ Karzai said in Kabul.”

More here…

Afghanistan contributed in a major way in the collapse of the Soviet Union that had an ambition to subdue this country. I have been writing for a long time that the US and the NATO countries should heed the warning and leave the fiercely independent Afghans alone. Both Bush and Musharraf now admit that there is no threat from Osama and his ilk…

Here’s the BBC story…