Pakistan (February 14, 2014): As per certain media report [t]wo Pakistani Sikhs along with their two employees were abducted by unidentified persons in northwestern Khyber Pakthunkhwa province of Paksitan on February 13.
As per media reports Sardar Singh, a resident of provincial capital Peshawar, registered a case under the Pakistan Penal Code against abductors in Daraban police station in connection with the abduction of his son Pawinder Singh, nephew Nand Singh and the two others.
According to reports, Pawindar Singh and his cousin Nand Singh, residents of Mohallah Jogan Shah in Peshawar, and the two others were travelling in a car to Daraban to sell medicines when they were kidnapped at gunpoint.
The kidnappers left behind their vehicle. Police launched a hunt to trace the men.
Peshawar has a sizable Sikh population and there have been several instances in recent years of members of the minority community being kidnapped for ransom.