Bodies of six Pakistanis brought home from Afghanistan

Published April 9, 2015
The bodies of Attaullah, Rahatullah, Ahmed Ali, Abdullah, Rehan Gul and Deedan Gul were dispatched to their native town. —AFP/File
The bodies of Attaullah, Rahatullah, Ahmed Ali, Abdullah, Rehan Gul and Deedan Gul were dispatched to their native town. —AFP/File

CHARSADDA: Bullet-riddled bodies of six Pakistanis, who were kidnapped in Afghanistan about two months back and killed a few days ago, were handed over to Pakistani officials at Torkham border post on Wednesday.

Sources said the bodies of Attaullah, Rahatullah, Ahmed Ali, Abdullah, Rehan Gul and Deedan Gul were later dispatched to their native town Prang, in Charsadda district.

Imran Khan, the SHO of Prang police station, and relatives of the deceased said that gunmen had kidnapped nine Pakistanis, belonging to the Charsadda district, in Mamand area of Afghanis-tan’s Nangarhar province about two months ago.

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One of the kidnapped men, Lehaz Gul, was later freed, apparently because he was too old, they said. The whereabouts of two other missing men — Gohar Ali and Noor Hussain — is still not known.

The sources said they too might have been killed. They said the nine Pakistanis used to deal in mustard oil and desi ghee in Mamand area of Afghanistan.

The relatives of the slain men said the kidnappers neither demanded ransom nor made any contact with them.

They said they visited the Afghan province several times but could not trace the whereabouts of their missing relatives.

They said that Ikramullah, the brother of Attaullah and Rahatullah, who was still in Afghanistan in this connection, informed them on Tuesday that bullet-riddled bodies of his brothers and other missing men had been found.

Published in Dawn, April 9th, 2015

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