Polish company to quit Pakistan after kidnapping

WARSAW, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Polish oil company Geofizyka Krakow is set to pull out of Pakistan after one of its Polish workers was kidnapped and three Pakistanis killed, its chief executive was quoted as saying on Tuesday.

Leopold Sulkowski said Geofizyka, a unit of the Polish gas monopoly PGNIG PGNI.WA, planned to bring its 18 workers home from Pakistan because the kidnapping constitutes a breach of its contract with local authorities.

"Our contract was halted because I don't think that any of our employees could continue to work in such conditions," TVN 24 news channel reported him as saying on its website.

Gunmen kidnapped a Polish engineer on Sunday after shooting dead his Pakistani driver, body guard and translator. The man was visiting one of the company's sites near Attock city, about 65 km (40 miles) west of the capital, Islamabad.

Kidnap for ransom is relatively common in Pakistan though foreigners are not often targets. Militants also occasionally take foreigners hostage.

Two Chinese telecommunications engineers were kidnapped in the northwest in late August and a spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban said the militants were holding the pair.

Afghanistan's top diplomat in Pakistan, Ambassador-designate Abdul Khaliq Farahi, was kidnapped this month in the northwestern city of Peshawar after gunmen ambushed his vehicle and killed his driver.

(Reporting by Piotr Skolimowski; editing by Christopher Johnson)