The pair were eating at a hotel in the Lorali area of the Balochistan province Friday when they were abducted.

Area official Sohailur Rehman says authorities are trying to determine who the two were and what they were doing in the region.  He says they had traveled from Punjab province.

Balochistan is the scene of a low-level separatist insurgency. Criminal gangs active in the region often carry out kidnappings for ransom.