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Pak kidnappers extend deadline for UN hostage

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Posted: Feb 17, 2009 at 0839 hrs IST

Quetta (Pakistan) An unknown militant group holding hostage an American working for the United Nations in Pakistan said on Monday it had extended a deadline they had set to kill him if their demands were not met.

The group, calling itself the Baluchistan Liberation United Front (BLUF) had said on Friday it would kill John Solecki in 72 hours, but on Monday a spokesman said more time would be given for the government to accede to its demands.

"We are giving more days for the government to accept our demands," Shahiq Baluch, the BLUF spokesman, said in a telephone call to the Press Club in Quetta, the capital of the southwest province of Baluchistan.

Solecki, the head of the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Quetta, was kidnapped on February 2 after gunmen ambushed his car and shot dead the driver.

The hitherto unheard BLUF has demanded U.N. intervention to secure the release of 141 women in Pakistani torture cells, provide information about more than 6,000 missing persons, and resolve the issue of Baluch independence under the Geneva Convention.

A low level insurgency has rumbled on for years in Baluchistan, the least populated of Pakistan's four provinces. Mountainous and arid, Balushistan is rich in mineral resources and possesses Pakistan's largest oil and gas fields.

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