Please get my son back

"I want my son back. Please bring him back," are the only words that Chand Sultan, Naeem's 58-year-old mother has been repeating in a heartbreaking and endless refrain for the past 24 hours. Her youngest son Sarang Mohammad Naeem, 38, an electrical engineer working with a private company in Afghanistan, was abducted while travelling in Herat province on Monday night.

Chand Sultan was the first person in the family to hear the news about her son's abduction and also the last person to speak to Naeem just five hours before he was kidnapped by armed gunmen when he was travelling in a taxi to the district of Adraskan, bordering Iran.

[Speaking from Kabul, Afghan foreign office spokesperson Sultan Ahmed Baheen said on Wednesday that Afghan President Hamid Karzai had appealed to the tribal elders of Adraskan to find the missing men, including Naeem's Nepalese companion. He said that they had repeatedly advised foreign workers travelling out of Kabul to ensure they had adequate protection and not to travel without armed guards.] Naeem had telephoned his mother at around 5.30 pm on Monday evening and had told her that he was really missing his one-and-a-half year-old son and was desperate to see him.

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Indian kidnapped by militants in Afghan

Armed gunmen on Monday abducted an Indian national from Herat province of Afghanistan.Sarang Mohammad Naeem, who works for a private company, and another unidentified man were abducted as they were travelling in a taxi to the district of Adraskan, bordering Iran.

Naeem's abduction is the third incident this year of attacks involving Indians in Afghanistan. It comes less than a fortnight after suicide bombers blew themselves up in Nimroz province, killing two Indians, both Border Roads Organisation (BRO) personnel, and injuring five other Indians and two Afghans.

New Delhi has expressed concern over the incident. "We have received with concern reports that an Indian national, Mr Sarang Mohammad Naeem, working with a private company in Afghanistan, was abducted in Herat province last night," read a statement issued by the ministry of external affairs in New Delhi.

"The Afghan government authorities are investigating the matter but he (Sarang Mohammad Naeem) remains untraced till now. We are keeping a close watch on further developments concerning this incident," the statement added. The Indian embassy in Kabul is monitoring the situation.

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