New deadline for kidnapped Polish engineer

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- The kidnappers of a Polish engineer abducted in Pakistan have given the government more time to grant their demands, Dawn reported.

The Pakistani newspaper said officials had been told that Piotr Stanczak would be killed by Wednesday if the Pakistan government did not provide what they wished. Jacek Najder, the Polish deputy foreign minister, told reporters Thursday the extension had been confirmed.

Stanczak, who works for a Polish oil and gas exploration company, was kidnapped in September about 70 miles from Islamabad. In October, authorities received a video in which Stanczak, with two guns aimed at him, calmly asked the government to release Taliban militants from custody.

He was kidnapped a week after militants bombed the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad.