Group admits Baghdad kidnapping

A MILITANT group yesterday claimed to have kidnapped a Pakistani working in the country’s embassy in Baghdad, officials said, confirming the latest abduction of a foreigner in Iraq’s lawless capital.

“Persons claiming to be members of Omar bin Khattab group have apparently kidnapped the official,” said a Pakistani Foreign Ministry statement released in Islamabad.

The official, Malik Mohammad Javed, went missing after prayers on Saturday in Baghdad.