🔺 Crisis of “kidnapping” and “hostage-taking” in Sistan and Baluchestan; from an ultimatum by Molavi Abdul Hamid to the government representative’s blame-shifting

▪While the issue of kidnapping and extortion through it has, in recent months, turned into a major crisis in the province of Sistan and Baluchestan—so much so that the Sunni Friday prayer leader of Zahedan has issued an ultimatum to the hostage-takers—the representative of the government in the province has reduced this crisis to the issue of “narcotics.”