Trader kidnapped near Quetta

The Newspaper's Correspondent Published July 19, 2014

QUETTA: A trader was kidnapped from Hazar Ganji market on Thursday night.

Mukesh Kumar, a resident of Mastung, was closing his shop in Hazar Ganji market on the outskirts of Quetta when gunmen forced him into a vehicle, sources said. The kidnappers drove him away to some unknown destination.

Police registered a case against kidnappers and were conducting a probe.

Published in Dawn, July 19th, 2014

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