The Urdu-language website of Pakistan's independent television network GEO TV reports that the Pakistani ambassador to Afghanistan, Tariq Azizuddin, has gone missing while travelling from the Pakistani city of Peshawar to Kabul. According to the report originating from federally-administered Khyber Agency, the ambassador went missing along with his two guards.

The "Political Authority", the local administration in the Khyber Agency, confirmed that the ambassador has gone missing. According to the report, the Foreign Office in Islamabad expressed concern over the likelihood of the envoy's kidnapping.

Source: Geo Television Network, www.Geo.tv/urdu.asp, Pakistan, February 11, 2008