QUETTA, Nov 14: An assistant director of the National Highway Authority and an engineer of a construction company have been kidnapped in Balochistan.

According to police, assistant director Kashif Memon left Quetta for Sibi on Nov 6 and he and his driver have since been missing.

Mr Memon's family has lodged a complaint with the Industrial Police Station.

In another incident, a Pakistani engineer working for a construction company in Kandahar was kidnapped near Mezai Adha area of Qila Abdullah on Sunday.

Sources said that Ajmal Amin and two other employees of the company crossed the Chaman border on Sunday. They were going to Quetta when armed people intercepted their car near Mezai Adha. They took away Ajmal on gunpoint and asked the other employees and the driver to proceed with their journey.—Saleem Shahid

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