John Solecki

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John Solecki is a U.S. official for the UNHCR, working in Quetta, Pakistan. On February 2, 2009, he was kidnapped by a previously unknown Baloch nationalist militant group calling itself the Balochistan Liberation United Front. His driver Syed Hashim was shot and later died at a local hospital.

Solecki was eventually released on April 4, 2009.^[1]

He is the son of American archaeologist Ralph Solecki.

Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik claimed that John Solecki was kidnapped by Brahamdagh Bugti.^[2] Bugti had earlier denied the allegations in an interview to a Paksitani television channel.^[3]

References

↑ Pakistani group frees US hostage, BBC, 4 April 2009
↑ ’سلیکی کے اغواء میں براہمداغ کا ہاتھ‘, BBC, 22 April 2009
↑ Live with Talat interview with Brahmdagh Bugti, Aaj TV

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