CHARSADDA, May 24: Charsadda police failed to recover the businessman of Ghafoor market, Zahid Ali, who had been kidnapped at gunpoint by some unidentified kidnappers near Sardayab on Wednesday on his way to Peshawar.

The business community and Muttahida Shopkeepers Association has given a call for a complete strike and a protest rally in Charsadda on Saturday as the 48-hour deadline given by the business community to the local police for the recovery of the businessman, has expired.

Zahid Ali, the proprietor of Zari House in Ghafoor market, was going home in a flying coach from Charsadda to Peshawar when near the Sardryab bridge some armed men stopped the vehicle and kidnapped Zahid Ali.

The uncle of the victim said that they had no enmity with anyone.