Kidnapped Iran troops drugged

GENEVA: A group of Iranian security personnel kidnapped on the border with Pakistan this week were unconscious at the time, the commander of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards said, following reports that they had eaten drugged food. Iran’s Fars News agency also quoted Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari yesterday as saying that infiltrators had helped with the abduction of at least 10 staff to Pakistan on Tuesday. An Iranian separatist group called Jaish al-Adl said on Tuesday it had seized the personnel, which included members of the Guards, at the Mirjaveh border post in Sistan-Baluchestan province to avenge the oppression of Sunni Muslims in the area. Jafari promised the kidnappers a tough response.