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  • Militants abduct three govt school teachers in Balochistan: official

    Suspected militants 'kidnapped' three government school teachers in Balochistan's Awaran district Tuesday evening, a security official told media.

    Levis official Muhammad Jan told media that the 'militants' allegedly abducted the three teachers as they were returning from a training session facilitated by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics for the upcoming national census in Awaran's Giskhor area.

    Jan identified the abducted teachers as Rashid Ali, Elahi Bakhsh and Rasool Bakhsh. The men are part of a team in the district that will collect data for the census.

    The Levies launched a search operation in the area to recover the teachers but were unsuccessful, the official said.

    There has been no immediate claim of responsibility for the 'abduction'.

    Pakistan will launch its first population census after a lull of 19 years across the country on March 15.

    Some 200,000 army personnel and 91,000 civilian enumerators will accompany the census teams in the provinces, at a cost of over Rs14 billion to the national exchequer.