SHIKARPUR, March 27: A man Arsalan Manganhar was kidnapped from a village near here early Tuesday morning.

A group of eight armed men came at a fish pond near his village in the Naparkot area and whisked him away while he was asleep.

In the morning parents of the kidnapped person, along with the villagers demonstrated and blocked the National Highway in protest against the kidnapping incident. The road was cleared after one hour on police intervention.

BACK Home: Dr Ramesh Kumar, who was kidnapped from his clinic at Tando Alam Mari, on the outskirts of Hyderabad on February 20, safely returned to his home on Tuesday morning.

According to reports, his kidnappers had dropped him at Naseem Nagar Chowk, Qasimabad, from where he managed to reach his home. However, he refused to talk to reporters.

His brother Om Parkash, however, said that no ransom was paid by his family to secure his release.—Dawn report