PESHAWAR, May 20: Jud-icial magistrate Jamshed Khan Kundi on Friday summoned the record of a case pertaining to two Algerian nationals married to Pakistani women. The men, who had allegedly disappeared in Batkhela more than a year ago, were produced in the court on Friday.

Officials of the crimes investigation department produced them in the court and said they had been arrested in a case of theft.

Ali and Mehdi, held Pakistani national identity cards bearing the names of Enayatullah and Azizullah.

Their in-laws were present in the court along with former MNA Jawed Ibraheem Paracha.

They claimed that the two were industrialists in Algeria and they had visited Pakistan in connection with making investments in Afghanistan. They got married in Batkhela.

They said the two had come to Pakistan during the Afghan Jihad, and, therefore, they were given Pakistani NICs.

Mr Paracha told Dawn that they were picked by intelligence agencies from Batkhela more than a year ago. They were interrogated and found innocent but the authorities kept them in the Adiala prison in Rawalpindi and later shifted them to Peshawar.

He alleged that a concocted theft case had been registered against them by the CID recently.

He said he would file their bail petitions and challenge their detention in the high court.

The court sent the two detainees to prison and summoned complete record of the case on the date of the next hearing.