India is counting almost solely on a global humanitarian agency to track down 40 nationals abducted in Iraq by militants, hobbled by the limitations of its stretched diplomatic establishment in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's biggest foreign policy test yet.
Iraq's Red Crescent -- as the International Red Cross is known in Islamic nations -- is leading the search for the Indian construction workers captured by gunmen in the northern city of Mosul that has been seized by an al Qaida splinter group.
The ministry of external affairs, which confirmed the kidnappings on Wednesday afternoon, said it was unclear who was behind the abductions that the government was unaware of till late yesterday when the Red Crescent informed the Indian embassy in Baghdad. But the president of the Iraqi Red Crescent Society, Yaseen Ahmad Abbas, told The Telegraph that his agency was convinced the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the terror group that has grabbed large chunks of Iraq's territory in lightning strikes over the past 10 days, is responsible.
"It can be no other group -- they (the ISIS) control the area," Abbas said in an interview over phone from Baghdad. "We hope to be able to find, by tomorrow, some trace of the Indians."
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