LANDI KOTAL, Nov 22: The Khyber Agency Paramedical Association has warned to launch protest campaign if one of their missing colleagues was not recovered within a week.

The President of Khyber Agency Paramedical Association Fazal Rehman in a statement alleged that the Khyber Agency political administration have failed to recover medical technician Kamaluddin who was kidnapped from Bara by an organized gang of kidnappers on August 23 this year.

Fazal Rehman further alleged that it was in the knowledge of political authorities that Kamal ud Din was being kept at Arhanga-Tirah valley by four notorious out laws Anwar, Meenatai, Sakhi and Akbar, but no action was so far taken by the Bara administration to recover him.

He said that the kidnappers demanded four lac rupees as ransom, which the authorities have so far refused to pay while the relatives of Kamal ud Din were unable to arrange the ransom amount.

Fazal Rehman informed that a delegation of his organization along with some local elders have left for Tirah valley to hold talks with Kamaluddin captors. He warned that his organization would stop polio vaccination in all the tribal agencies and would stay away from their duties at all the hospitals in Fata if their missing colleague was not recovered in a week's time.

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