Pro-Taliban militants kidnap 60 in Pak

PESHAWR: Pro-Taliban militants armed with automatic rifles on Saturday kidnapped about 60 people, including women and children, after ambushing their vehicles in Pakistan's northwest Khurram tribal region, police said.
The militants off loaded the people from 10 vehicles and took them hostage at gunpoint and set on fire one tractor, they said.
Further details were immediately not available and police said they were trying to trace the abductors and recover the hostages.
Robberies and kidnapping for ransom are common in the volatile Khurram tribal region, which has witnessed several sectarian clashes between the majority Sunni and the minority Shias Muslims.