Pakistan security forces in the country's restive southwest were searching on September 11 for six soccer players kidnapped last week, a minister said. The athletes were abducted in the gasfield town of Sui in the Dera Bugti district of Balochistan Province on their way to a local tournament. "The entire area has been cordoned off," Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti said in a statement released late on September 10. "All available resources are being utilized for the recovery of the hostages." Balochistan is Pakistan's largest and least populous province, rich in natural resources but poor by all other measures.
Pakistan Hunts For Kidnapped Soccer Players
Pakistani youth play soccer in Quetta, Balochistan. (file photo)