KOHAT, Nov 23: The families of thousands of missing Pakistanis inside Afghanistan are desperately trying to contact journalists or warlords by satellite phones to know about the fate of their near and dear ones.

The Pakistani foreign office with no mission in Kabul or official contact with the present regime has already expressed its inability to be of any help to the unfortunate families.

It is learnt that some people are even taking the risk of going inside the troubled parts of Afghanistan for rescuing their kith and kin.

Having obtained reports that about 10,000 foreign fighters are trapped in Kunduz and the Northern Alliance has agreed to grant amnesty to the Taliban but not to aliens, the affected families are worried about the lives of their near and dear ones.

Unlike the US special forces who had rescued eight foreign aid workers through an air operation the Pakistani authorities have failed to do anything practical about thousands of their countrymen missing in action in Afghanistan.

In a survey, people told dawn that the United States enjoyed Pakistan’s fullest cooperation in its war against terrorism but it had been oblivious of its responsibility: it not providing no help to pull out Pakistanis from the clutches of the Northern Alliance.

They deplored that the Pakistani defence ministry which knew every inch of the Afghan territory and had the resources and connections to approach the areas where Pakistanis were trapped, was doing nothing.

On the contrary, an angry Afghan rickshaw driver said that if allowed he would go and kill all those Pakistanis who had gone there to kill his countrymen.