ISLAMABAD: Talha Asad, brother-in-law of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) Senator Afnanullah Khan, has returned home after his abductors set him free on Monday.

Talking to Dawn, Senator Khan confirmed that his brother-in-law returned home safe and sound. “It was a wrong identity case,” he said while explaining a reason behind his abduction.

Asad was set free at Islamabad Expressway near Gulberg Green in the evening from where he sent a message through his mobile phone to his family, the senator said, adding that he reached home using an online cab service.

“He has no idea who abducted him and where he was taken and detained,” the PML-N lawmaker said, adding that he “remained blindfolded”.

According to an FIR registered at the Shalimar police station on a complaint of his brother M. Hashim, Asad along with his father, brother and three sons offered Isha prayer at a mosque in Sector F-11/ 2. He along with his sons was coming out of the mosque when two armed men in black clothes took him to a Toyota Hiace and sped away, the complaint mentioned. The vehicle had black tinted glasses, it said. Shortly afterwards, his sons informed his brother, Hashim, about the abduction.

Published in Dawn, September 13th, 2022