BAJAUR, Feb 5: A criminal gang has kidnapped two minor boys from Barang area of the Bajaur Agency and asked the relatives to pay Rs400,000 as ransom.

The kidnapping was the first-ever incident of its kind in the agency.

Habib Noor, father of the kidnapped boys Wakil Khan, 7 and Izzat Khan, 10, said he had no enmity with anybody in the area.

“Maindar Khan has kidnapped my sons just for ransom. It is a unique incident in our area,” he added.