ISLAMABAD – A Pakistan Army official, appointed as a clerk at the country’sembassy in Austria some five months ago, disappeared this month along withsome sensitive documents, a media report has said.

A case of his disappearance and missing documents was registered at theTarnol police station in Islamabad on a complaint of a defence ministryofficial, Dawn reported.

“It is suspected that he might have become a tool in the hands of enemy ofthe country,” according to the FIR.

The missing official was enrolled in the Pakistan Army as sepoy andappointed as a clerk at the Pakistani embassy in Vienna, Austria, in Augustlast year, it stated.

He was given a sensitive assignment by the defence ministry, the papersaid, citing the FIR.

He was made an official in-charge of some important and sensitive nationalaffairs in Vienna, it stated, adding that “it was very important duty,besides sensitive for country’s sovereignty”.

The official had been found absent from his duty since January 2, the FIRstated.

It said on checking of embassy’s record the documents carrying sensitiveinformation were also found missing.

After his disappearance, the man contacted his family and asked his wife toshift to her parents’ house at Tarnol in Islamabad, the FIR stated.

According to his wife, her husband left the embassy of his free will andwill “return after five years”.

So far the man had not contacted his department or the Pakistani embassy inVienna to inform them about his whereabouts, the FIR stated, adding thatthe wife, parents and brother of the man were in contact with him, butavoiding sharing information about him with the police.

In reply to a question, a police official on condition of anonymity saidthat the defence ministry had asked the law enforcement agency toinvestigate and interrogate his family to trace his whereabouts and arresthim.