QUETTA: The Balochistan High Court ( BHC) on Monday expressed concern over the non-recovery of Awami National Party (ANP) leader Arbab Zahir Kasi and directed the police and the Frontier Corps (FC) to ensure his quick return.

The BHC held a hearing in the kidnapping case of the ANP leader which was presided by Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa and Justice Muhammad Kamran Mulakhel was the other judge on the divisional bench.

The court ordered the police to launch an investigation into vehicles with tinted glasses, as well as unregistered vehicles.

In previous hearings of the case, the bench had expressed its dissatisfaction with the lack of action and reprimanded police officials that people were being kidnapped in broad daylight.

The court had also observed that because of growing incidents of kidnapping for ransom scores of doctors, teachers and businessmen had moved to other cities and if this menace was not checked then lawyers and other educated sections of society would also leave Quetta.

On Oct 23, Kasi, a former provincial president of the ANP, had left home in the morning when three gunmen intercepted the vehicle he was travelling in at Motiram corner of Quetta’s Patel road and forced him to board their car.

According to his driver, the kidnappers, who were speaking Urdu, snatched his keys and a mobile phone as well.