ISLAMABAD: Afghani-stan’s government appealed to Pakistan on Saturday to take action and find and free a former provincial governor who has been kidnapped in Islamabad.

Fazlullah Wahidi, former governor of Herat province, was abducted on Friday in Islamabad, the Afghan foreign ministry said.

The motive for the kidnapping was not clear, but the Afghan government asked Pakistani authorities “to use all their tools and possibilities to identify the group of kidnappers and take action to free Wahidi immediately”.

Former Afghan president, Hamid Karzai issued a separate statement on Facebook about the “respectable elder”, who he said had travelled to Pakistan to apply for a visa to the UK.

An official in Pakistan’s foreign ministry said that the Afghan embassy had reported Mr Wahidi missing, and local police were investigating.

Published in Dawn, February 14th, 2016