Khalil Dale murder senseless and barbaric, says Red Cross Khalil Dale, kidnapped at gunpoint in Quetta in January, was found dead on Sunday. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says it will weigh up the risks and benefits of operating in parts of Pakistan following the murder of its aid worker Khalil Dale. A spokesman refused to go into details on any contacts the ICRC had with Dale's abductors to try to free him prior to his death, but said this should not be taken to mean it had countenanced paying any ransom. Dale's body was found on Sunday dumped in an orchard in Quetta, in Baluchistan province. The 60-year-old Muslim convert from Dumfries, Scotland, had been kidnapped at gunpoint in January. Local police said there was a note attached to his body saying he had been killed because a ransom had not been paid. As tributes to Dale poured in from colleagues, friends and political leaders, the spokesman, Sean Maguire, said the ICRC had a policy of not paying ransoms as part of "a consistent and systematic approach that keeps people safe wherever they are." Maguire told BBC's Today programme: "We said that we had some contact with the abductors but we wouldn't want to give succour to future kidnappers by saying we countenanced paying a ransom. We did everything possible to try to get Khalil out and we are very sad that our efforts failed. We put every effort that we could into liberating him and it is deeply, deeply unfortunate that we did not manage to free him. His death, to our mind, is senseless and barbaric. Quetta is close to the Afghan border and troubled tribal areas where the Pakistani Taliban are active. Pakistan's high commissioner to the UK, Wajid Shamsul Hasan, condemned the "terrible, horrendous and barbaric act." Authorities were having to deal with "faceless killers," he said. We are investigating because these things happen in that area. We are trying to find out who they actually are, whether they are Pakistani Taliban or Afghani Taliban. They could be anybody because the game has become so murky in that area," Hasan said. Dale, who was awarded an MBE for his humanitarian work overseas, changed his name from Ken when he became a Muslim. He was engaged to be married and had been living in Pakistan for nearly a year. He had previously worked for the ICRC and British Red Cross in Kenya, Sudan, Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq. It not only robs him of his life, and his family and co-workers of their loved one and friend, it robs the people he was helping of the expert care they need. Sheila Howat, a friend and former colleague who worked with Dale at Dumfries Infirmary, where he was a staff nurse, said: "It's unbelievable what they've done to Ken. It's soul-destroying. He was travelling home from a school in a clearly marked ICRC vehicle in Quetta on 5 January when kidnappers bundled him into a car. The identities of his captors are unknown. The region is home to separatist and Islamist militants who have kidnapped for ransom before. David Cameron said: "I was deeply saddened to hear about the brutal murder of Khalil Dale, a man who was killed whilst providing humanitarian support to others. "This was a senseless and cruel act, targeting someone whose role was to help the people of Pakistan, and causing immeasurable pain to those who knew Mr Dale," Hague said. Russell Brown, the MP for Dumfries and Galloway, said: "Dumfries is a close-knit community, and has been left shocked by the death of Khalil. It is a terrible tragedy, made all the worse by its gruesome nature. The fact that someone could kidnap and murder a man who was in Pakistan to help people is an unspeakable act of barbarity. Even now, we still don't know who kidnapped Khalil. I want to see the British and Pakistani governments working together to do everything in their power to bring those responsible for this brutal and heinous crime to justice.