Two young Czech women kidnapped in southwest Pakistan in March said in a video, released by the Czech government yesterday, they feared they would soon be killed.
The Czech embassy in Islamabad received the footage, which shows Antonie Chrastecka (25) and Hana Humpalova (24), who were seized while heading for India by microbus through the province of Balochistan, neighbouring Afghanistan.
In the video, released by the girls’ families through the Czech foreign ministry, one of the women said she was in poor health.
In the second part of the video, Ms Chrastecka appears and calls on the Czech government for help. “I am asking the Czech government to help me go home soon,” she said.
Czech President Milos Zeman said this month that negotiations to secure the release of the pair were under way.
The ministry also released a joint video by the mothers of the two women, in which they said they believed their daughters were being taken care of well.
– (Reuters)