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KHAIBER AGENCY: Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan is feared abducted with his driver after going missing on Monday in an insurgency-hit Pakistani tribal region while driving to Kabul, officials said.Tariq Azizuddin went missing in the Khyber tribal district, one of seven semi-autonomous regions along the Afghan border where Islamist militants have carried out attacks.
The Pakistan embassy in Kabul said it last had contact with the ambassador at around 11:30 am (0630 GMT) and was trying to find out what had happened.
"We know that he was coming from (the northwestern Pakistani city of) Peshawar to Kabul and we lost contact with him. We are trying our best to find out what happened," officials said.
The chief administrative official in Khyber, Rasool Khan Wazir, said security forces raised the alarm when the envoy failed to reach the main border post between the two countries at Torkham.
"The search was launched when Afghan authorities informed us that he had failed to reach," Wazir said, adding that the envoy was traveling in an official car with his driver, who is also missing, he said.
Officials at another checkpost had earlier ordered the ambassador's car to stop "because they saw some local people sitting in the front seat. But they did not stop," Wazir said. "Where they are we don't know. We have launched a search," Wazir added.
The main road between Pakistan and Afghanistan was closed for search operations.
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