Taliban militants active in north-western Pakistan are holding a Polish engineer who was kidnapped at the weekend, a militant spokesman said on Thursday. The Pole, identified as Piotr Stanczak, was kidnapped by gunmen on Sunday who shot dead his two drivers and a security guard in northern Attock district.
"He is with us. We have kidnapped him," Mohammad, a spokesman for militants active in the troubled Darra Adam Khel region told reporters in the nearby north-western city of Peshawar by telephone. He uses only one name. There were no further details and officials have not commented on who they believe is holding Stanczak.