kidnap, hostage

Pakistan
- chinese engineer pingzhi scmp this week in asia 28jan18

Philippines
- 23april1976 hijacked airliner, causing several persons' death

india
- A national crisis emerged in December 1999, when Indian Airlines flight IC 814 from Kathmandu to New Delhi was hijacked by five terrorists and flown to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.^[44] The hijackers made several demands including the release of certain terrorists like Masood Azhar from prison. Under extreme pressure, the government ultimately caved in. Jaswant Singh, the Minister for External Affairs at the time, flew with the terrorists to Afghanistan and exchanged them for the passengers.

iran
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1990/04/23/kidnappers-free-hostage-in-move-linked-to-us-iran-ties/7c7d8147-8785-465f-902f-db96005ca78c/?utm_term=.d4f36bbf04bf  Iranian-backed Shiite extremists, in a "goodwill initiative" apparently intended to improve relations between Iran and the United States, freed American educator Robert Polhill today after 39 months of captivity in Lebanon. The 55-year-old New Yorker is the first American hostage freed since Nov. 2, 1986, when the last of three men was released as part of the arms-for-hostages deal that led to the Iran-contra scandal of the Reagan presidency. Seven more Americans and nine other Westerners remain hostages in Lebanon.

yemen
- 美國總統特朗普周一宣布，被也門武裝分子禁錮長達十八個月的工程師伯奇，已經順利獲釋返家。特朗普表示，希望所有被囚的美國人質能夠平安回家。伯奇和也門籍的太太育有三名子女，他於前年在也門首都薩那送完孩子上學後，遭叛軍「青年運動」綁架。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190227/00180_018.html