Ethnic tribal rebels in Pakistan's insurgency-hit south-western province of Balochistan claimed on Saturday that a UN top official kidnapped earlier this week from the region was in their captivity, a media report said.
According to country's private news agency Online, the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), a secular and nationalist guerrilla organization in Balochistan, has accepted the responsibility for the abduction of the local head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, dpa reported.
The official, an American national, was snatched on Monday after unknown gunmen shot dead his driver in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province.