Al-Qaeda has released a video of an American NGO worker kidnapped by it in Pakistan in 2011, in which he is shown asking US President Barack Obama to negotiate with his captors for his release.
Warren Weinstein, 72, seen wearing a a grey tracksuit, sounded tired as he said he felt “totally abandoned and forgotten”.“It has been more than two years since I was kidnapped by Al-Qaeda while working as a consultant for a US government programme in Pakistan,” he said.
Weinstein, who was kidnapped from his home in lahore, said he was suffering from a heart ailment and severe asthma. He came to Pakistan nine years ago and was the country head of J E Austin Associates, a US-based consulting firm.