British Red Cross worker kidnapped in Quetta

Armed men kidnapped a British Red Cross worker from Quetta on Thursday, police and the Red Cross said, highlighting the fragile security situation in the country. Police officer Nazir Ahmed Kurd said the man was taken from a vehicle in an upscale housing complex in Quetta. The assailants bundled him into their car and drove off.
Kurd said the man was visiting a local school. Sitara Jabeen, an International Committee of the Red Cross spokeswoman, said health program manager Khalil Rasjed Dale, a British national, was on his way home from work in a clearly marked ICRC vehicle when he was seized near his residence.
In a statement, she said despite the incident, the ICRC would continue its humanitarian work in Pakistan. She called for a ``rapid and unconditional release'' of Dale. Another officer, Ahsan Mahboob, said the British man was travelling with a Pakistani doctor and a driver. They were not taken, he said.