Muhammad Nabi Ahmadi arrived in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Friday for an appointment with a doctor, senior police official Muhamad Sajjad Khan.
“He was in the Dabgari neighborhood of the city when gunmen forced him into a vehicle and drove away,” he said.
An official from the Afghan consulate in Peshawar confirmed the incident on condition of anonymity.
No group has claimed responsibility.
The incident comes a more than a year after a former governor of Afghanistan’s Herat province was kidnapped at a tightly guarded market in Islamabad. He was freed in the northwestern city of Mardan two weeks later.
Peshawar, near the frontier with Afghanistan, has long been a center for militant activity in both countries. Smugglers and drug traffickers use the city as a transport hub.
Peshawar has borne the brunt of militant violence for years and was the scene of the country’s deadliest-ever terror attack, a Taliban assault on an army-run school in 2014 that left more than 150 people dead — most of them children.
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source : AFP
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