The World : U.S. Kidnap Plot Alleged

An Afghan official accused the United States and Pakistan of collaborating in kidnaping the chief of Afghanistan’s mission in Karachi last week. “Baz Mohammed Rahyad was transferred forcibly to the U.S. Consulate” in Karachi, said Ghulam Hassan, second secretary at the Afghan Consulate there. “It was a kidnaping.” The Islamabad newspaper The Muslim, quoting unidentified sources, said the 30-year-old diplomat was an “undercover intelligence operative” who fled last week with a “wealth of precious information” about Soviet and Afghan activities in Pakistan after receiving word that he was to be sent back to Kabul.