According to local authorities, a video of Khan that showed him being held by the Pakistani Taliban was sent to his family under false pretenses.
Khan can be seen in the video sitting in front of armed men and pleading with the government to grant the Pakistani Taliban’s requests. Four people, including an army officer who was sitting in a mosque in a former Taliban stronghold in Pakistan to receive mourners after attending his father’s funeral, were abducted by suspected militants, according to officials on Thursday.
The kidnapping of Lt. Col. Khalid Khan and three others on Wednesday in Dera Ismail Khan, a district in the northwest Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has gone unreported.
According to local authorities, a video of Khan that showed him being held captive by the Pakistani Taliban was sent to his family under false pretenses. Khan can be seen in the video sitting in front of armed men and pleading with the government to grant the Pakistani Taliban’s requests. What exactly they were demanding was unknown.
Neither the government nor the military responded right away.
Ikram Ullah, a local police official, stated that attempts were being made to locate and rescue Khan, his two brothers who are also government employees, and one of his nephews who had been kidnapped.
Though these kidnappings are uncommon, the Pakistani Taliban frequently targets security forces in the northwest.
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