Pakistan: kidnapped ICRC delegate murdered
| Publisher | International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) |
| Publication Date | 29 April 2012 |
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The ICRC has now received confirmation that Khalil, a 60-year-old health-programme manager in Quetta/Balochistan, was murdered almost four months after his kidnapping.
"The ICRC condemns in the strongest possible terms this barbaric act," said Director-General Yves Daccord. "All of us at the ICRC and at the British Red Cross share the grief and outrage of Khalil's family and friends."
"We are devastated," said Yves Daccord. 'Khalil was a trusted and very experienced Red Cross staff member who significantly contributed to the humanitarian cause."
Khalil worked for the ICRC and the British Red Cross for many years, carrying out assignments in Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq. He had been working as a health-programme manager in Quetta/Balochistan for almost a year. At about 1 p.m. on 5 January 2012, he was abducted by unidentified armed men while returning home from work.
The ICRC has been active in Pakistan since 1947, providing humanitarian services in the fields of health-care, in particular physical rehabilitation, including in Balochistan.
