KOHAT, April 21: The subject specialist teachers association has threatened to go on indefinite strike in case of further delay in the recovery of a vice-principal who was kidnapped along with two other members of Tableeghi Jamaat while returning from North Waziristan Agency 20 days back.

In a press release issued here on Friday, the association while criticising the government regretted that even teachers and Tableeghi Jamaat members were not safe in the country.

The office-bearers of the association asked the governor and the political administration of North Waziristan Agency to make serious efforts for safe recovery of the vice-principal of the Government High School No. 3 Aamad ud Din and his other two colleagues who went missing in between North Waziristan and Bannu district 20 days back.

Zikria Khan of Afridi cloth house, Vice-Principal Aamad ud Din and Saeed, a tyre dealer were on a visit to Miramshah, headquarters of North Waziristan Agency, from Raiwind for preaching and selecting a party for a mission abroad. They went missing after leaving the Tableeghi centre in the tribal area.

The family members established a contact with the kidnappers a few days after their abduction but later the talks broke down. The families of the victims had refused government help and decided not to lodge an FIR fearing that the kidnappers may kill the hostages if any operation was launched against them.

Two more people were kidnapped while passing through North Waziristan Agency on their way to Bannu from Kurram Agency on Friday.

The authorities believed that Imtiaz and Shaista Khan had been kidnapped for ransom. They said that some criminal gangs had become active in the area for the last four to five months.

They had kidnapped and released five people within few months including a PTCL official and a contractor of military engineering services (MES), after getting ransom.

The kidnappers were taking advantage of the situation in the area and carrying out criminal activities because the tribal administration had been fully engaged by the Taliban and Al Qaeda sympathisers and there were no security arrangements for the area people on the said route.