THE GUARDIAN: ICRC says it has a policy of not paying ransoms after body of British aid worker kidnapped in January is found in Quetta
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is appealing to the Pakistani media not to broadcast a video of the execution of the kidnapped British aid worker Khalil Dale, which his killers have threatened to release.
Dale's body was discovered on Sunday, dumped in an orchard in Quetta, the restless southern city where the 60-year-old British nurse had been working as a health programme manager before he was seized by armed men in January.
Officials in Quetta said a note had been left with his corpse saying: "This is the body of Khalil who we have slaughtered for not paying a ransom".
It also said a video of the moment Dale's throat was cut would soon be released.
The ICRC has said it will weigh up the risks and benefits of operating in parts of Pakistan following Dale's murder.
A spokesman refused to go into detail about any contacts the ICRC may have had with Dale's abductors to try to free him before his death, but said this should not be taken to mean it had countenanced paying any ransom.
The 60-year-old Muslim convert from Dumfries, Scotland, had been kidnapped at gunpoint in January. » | Jon Boone in Islamabad, Severin Carrell, Scotland correspondent and James Meikle | Monday, April 30, 2012
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