JEDDAH, 21 December 2004 — The employees of Al-Tamimi Group have collected SR500,000 for the families of each of the two Pakistanis — Sajid Naeem and Azad Hussain Khan — who were kidnapped and later killed in Iraq. Ilyas Khan, chief executive of Al-Tamimi Group, said this at a reception arranged for Minister of State for Labor, Manpower and Overseas Pakistan Sen. Tariq Azeem in Dammam.
Ilyas said that a team from Al-Tamimi Group will go to Pakistan in the first week of January to hand over the money to the parents of Sajid Naeem and the widow of Azad Hussain Khan. Both the Pakistanis were working in Iraq when they were taken hostage some months back and killed by kidnappers.