Armed men one of American advisers from his home in Lahore kidnapped early Saturday, highlighting the difficulty of us aid efforts in Pakistan.
The abducted man, Warren Weinstein, head of the Pakistan Office for consulting company j.e. Austin Associates, Inc. The company is working here set to US Agency for international development (USAID) projects, including a small business and job creation in the troubled tribal areas. The United States has promised to improve State $7.5 billion in civilian aid over a period of five years within the framework of a tender militancy and relations with the nuclear weapons.
It is unclear what motivated the abduction. But the incident underscores the risks and complications involved in trying to implement us aid for American entrepreneurs work.
"It is very shocking for me," says Sajid Hassan, a businessman who has worked with Dr. Weinstein projects at dairy. "He did much good work for this country".
Help Pakistan's dairy industryMr. Weinstein helped dairy chillers to increase productivity of Pakistan's rural, productivity in $63 million in new investment to Pakistan, at least 2,150 new jobs and a 25 percent increase as a result, we import producer after to the company's website.
"He negotiations with colleagues in the Netherlands, the University in defining the dairy facilities helped", says Dr. Muhammad Abdullah, Chair of livestock at the University of veterinary and animal sciences, Lahore. "We had a professional interaction with him."
The Weinstein Company was also in favour of small businesses in the gem and marble trade in the lower districts of the federally administered tribal areas, a base for several militant groups such as the Haqqani network, and Al-Qaeda.
"If you have foreign contractors, NGOs also, come in, they find it much more difficult" to as local groups operate, says Shandana Khan, head of rural support programme network, a Pakistani non-governmental organization. "We are now in [areas] have we to be very careful, and if we have these issues you think can [what us groups go through]."
Does this gift Ribbon foreign development?Some foreign developers from the regions along the Afghan border safer cities such as Islamabad back draw, she says. "And this is now Lahore-, which is very serious," she adds. When it will send more to local people, suffers from the monitoring of projects.
Weinstein lived in model town, a green, affluent section of Lahore, which is also home of top opposition leader Nawaz Sharif. His two-storey house seemed a higher security building than its neighbors, complete with eight metre high walls and a security camera above.
Police received an emergency call at 3:30 pm local time, after a group of eight heavily armed attackers in Wolf's home says Tajamul Hussain, the Lahore police officer investigating the incident.
The front gate and food approached three of armed, to eat the three guards and a driver, who were offered. (During the Holy of Muslim month of Ramadan, dinner is eaten at night.) The guards rejected, but with only a gun between them, they were overwhelmed.
Meanwhile, five armed in the back of the House broke two floors. The intruders grabbed Weinstein, beat him with a pistol and links for 15 minutes with him, according to Mr Hussain. No one was killed.
Police are drivers, guards and other staff queries, because they suspect that the attacker can have gotten inside help, says a police intelligence, said on condition of anonymity. The officer says j.e. Austin Associates was expected, that Pakistan operations on Aug. 15 wrap up, after work here since 2005. cream of tartar works with the company since 2004, according to his professional networking - site LinkedIn profile.
Other police sources, who asked to remain unnamed said the monitor, Lahore several raids in Lahore led to police overnight and through the morning believe that he remains in the city.
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