A group claiming to be holding an American UN official in Pakistan Monday threatened to kill him in 48 hours if the government does not free more than 1,100 prisoners, a report said. A spokesman for the Balochistan Liberation United Front (BLUF) called the private Online news agency in Quetta late Monday to say the United Nations had to play its role in fulfilling their demands within 48 hours.
BLUF has only been communicating with Online. "If anything happened to John Solecki, who is a heart patient, then we will not be responsible," Online quoted spokesman Shahak Baloch as saying. "We have given our demands to the United Nations that 1,109 of our people and 141 women prisoners should be recovered, but UN officials have not shown seriousness," Baloch said. "His condition is deteriorating, we are providing him every possible medical treatment, but it is making no difference," Baloch said.