[1][2] Stańczak was abducted in the city of Attock in September 2008 after gunmen shot dead his driver, translator and bodyguard with whom he was travelling in a car.

Stańczak's body was later recovered outside a paramilitary camp in Razmak and returned to Poland aboard a Pakistani Air Force plane.

[9] On July 25, 2009, Pakistani police arrested a former parliamentarian with close links to the Taliban, Shah Abdul Aziz, in connection with the murder of Stańczak.

A captured member of the Taliban told an anti-terrorism court that he was given orders by Aziz to kill Stańczak.

[11] In November 2017 another Al-Qaeda commander responsible for multiple kidnappings, including Stańczak, was arrested in Afghanistan.