DTN News - PAKISTAN NEWS: U.S. Citizen Kidnapped In Pakistan According To Police
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada / LAHORE, Pakistan - August 13, 2011: An American citizen was kidnapped from his residence in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore on Saturday, police said.
The man, who the U.S. embassy declined to identify, works for the consulting firm J.E. Austin Associates Inc., and was working on a development project in the country's lawless tribal areas, where Pakistani troops have been battling Islamist insurgents for years.
A U.S. embassy spokesman said they were trying to confirm the reports.
"Some six to eight people broke into his house at around 3:30 a.m., when security guards on duty were making preparation for fasting," police official Tajamal Hussain told Reuters, referring to the Ramadan fast observed by Muslims.
"Two of the assailants came from the front gate while about six others used the backdoor. They tortured the guards and then took the American with them."
A security official familiar with the incident said the gunmen forced the man's driver to knock on his bedroom door. When the man opened it, they took him.
Hussain said the man, in his 60s, had been living in Pakistan five to six years. He mostly lived in Islamabad but had been traveling to Lahore.
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