KARACHI, April 14: Two officials of a multinational petroleum company were kidnapped on Super Highway in Gulzar-i-Hijri police limits on Friday while they were coming to Karachi from Hyderabad.

Sources in the police said a manager of the petroleum company posted at Hyderabad, Mubashir Husain Zaidi, and an engineer, Habibur Rahman, were kidnapped along with their car after they left Hyderabad for Karachi. The police found their car abandoned in Malik Colony in Gulzar-i-Hijri police limits on Super Highway early Saturday morning.

The police registered a case of kidnapping against unknown kidnappers. A senior police officer said the police had sought help from the Citizen-Police Liaison Committee. No ransom call had so far been received, he added.

Mubashir lived in an apartment at Clifton, and Habib in Liaquatabad, the sources said.

A 10-month-old boy was kidnapped been in a shanty town in Defence police limits on Saturday.

Clifton town police officer Munir Shaikh told this reporter that Mohammed Ali, a pickup driver, rented out a portion of his house in Hazara Colony to a man. The couple often took Ali’s infant son Shah Mohammed to their home. On Saturday, they took Shah Mohammed to their home and did not return. Ali went to see his son and found the house locked. He reported the matter to the police. He lodged an FIR on Monday.

The police officer said the complainant told the police that he did not know anything about his tenants.