New video shows Czech hostages alive in Pakistan

Relatives of two Czech women kidnapped in Pakistan in March have released a new video that showed them asking Czech authorities to take action to free them.
The video of Hana Humpalova and Antonie Chrastecka was made in late August and delivered to the Czech embassy in Islamabad, foreign ministry spokeswoman Johana Grohova told reporters.
She declined further comment.
The women speak separately in English in the video, which offers no indication of the kidnappers' identity or more recent proof of life.
Wearing a black headscarf, Humpalova said she was "concerned about my friend", while Chrastecka asked Czech authorities to work with the Pakistani government to help her "go home soon".

The foreign ministry also released a video of their mothers asking the kidnappers to treat them well.

The 24-year-old psychology students were kidnapped on March 13 while being escorted by a tribal policeman after crossing into Pakistan from Iran on holiday.
In another video released in June, the women claimed to be in good health and asked for the release of Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui, jailed in the United States on charges of terrorist links.
Kidnappings plague parts of Baluchistan and northwest Pakistan, where criminals looking for ransoms snatch foreigners and locals, sometimes passing their hostages on to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked groups.