Video: Tributes paid to Red Cross aid worker beheaded in Pakistan My friend, Ken, as I knew him then before he got his Islamic name, was the most wonderful person you could wish to meet, he was caring and devoted to caring for other people less fortunate thean himself. His entire life was given to caring for others," said former colleague and friend, Shiele Howett. Police discovered Mr Dale wrapped in plastic near a western bypass road in the capital of southwestern Baluchistan province where Baluch separatist militants are fighting a protracted insurgency for more autonomy. His name was written on the white plastic bag with black marker. Mr Dale had worked for the ICRC and the British Red Cross in Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq before coming to Pakistan. He had been managing a health programme for Baluchistan for almost a year when he was abducted, the ICRC statement said. Another friend, journalist Frank Ryan, said Mr Dale had encountered dangerous situations working in Somalia. He was an amazing man, really. His frail appearance, his gentle appearance, really belied the sort of work he was doing. I mean he described to me his adventures in Africa, which were extensive, they were quite life-threatening, he'd been captured before, before this incident, in Mogadishu I think it was, and he had had rifles pointed at his head and he had been robbed at gunpoint, all sorts of things," Ryan said. Mr Dale is the third Westerner killed in this manner in Pakistan. The others were Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002 and Piotr Stanczak, a Polish geologist, in 2009. A senior police officer said the Pakistan Taliban had claimed responsibility for the killing, saying a ransom had not been paid.