KARACHI: Barrister Awais Shah, son of Sindh High Court Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah, narrated his kidnapping ordeal before police investigators who had called on him, sources told Dawn on Wednesday.

Barrister Awais, who was recovered by security forces during an operation in the Tank area of Dera Ismail Khan in the early hours of Tuesday morning in which three of his captors were killed, told the investigators that the abductors had tried on the same day of his kidnapping on June 20 to take him out of the city but could not succeed because of deployment of security personnel.

However, on Jumatul Widah (July 1), the kidnappers managed to take him out of the city when security forces were deployed outside mosques to prevent any untoward incident, the sources said.

They travelled around five to six hours and Awais Shah was kept at a place which was hot but he was not sure about the exact location; it might be Sukkur or Jacobabad, said the sources. He was blindfolded and kept in three different places.

About the abductors, the young lawyer only said that they were speaking Pasthu. They, however, did not torture him, according to the sources.

Published in Dawn, July 21st, 2016