ISLAMABAD: Two office-bearers of Majlis-i-Wahdatul Muslimeen (MWM), who were missing since Sunday, returned home on Tuesday.

Zaheer Abbas Naqvi, the local MWM secretary general, and his office secretary Vilayat Ali were allegedly tortured by their kidnappers.

Mr Naqvi was on his way to an under-construction house in Soan Gardens on Sunday when he went missing.

Talking to Dawn, Mr Naqvi said: “I received a call from my friend who was already missing. My friend asked me to reach a filling station in sector I-10. When Vilayat Ali and I reached there on a motorbike, two vehicles were already waiting for us.”

He said two men wearing police uniforms came out of one of the vehicles and asked me to sit in the vehicle.

“They tied my hands and blindfolded me,” he said. “After a drive of around 20 minutes, the kidnapers shifted me to a building and locked me in a room. Later, I learnt that Vilayat had also been kidnapped.”

He claimed that the kidnappers tortured him and sought information about his political party, its members and funding.

Mr Naqvi said on Tuesday his captors dropped him near a filling station in sector F-6 and handed him over the keys of his bike. “I found my motorbike parked near the filling station,” he said.

Published in Dawn, July 23rd, 2014