KARACHI, Sept 3: ‘Missing’ businessman Saifullah Paracha is under detention at the FBI centre in Kabul, according to a letter received by his wife through the International Committee of Red Cross in Islamabad.

The businessman assured Mrs Farhat Paracha, who had moved a petition for his recovery and production, that he was being properly looked after at the American investigation bureau’s detention centre in the Afghan capital.

According to Mrs Paracha’s counsel, Advocate Nisar A. Mujahid, who was unable to release a copy of the letter, the businessman seemed to have written it under “coercion” in order to defeat a production order addressed by the Sindh High Court to the federal interior ministry. It was only aimed at “establishing” that the businessman was not being detained in Pakistan. The letter was also silent on the circumstances of his arrest.

The businessman went missing after boarding a Thai Air flight from Karachi to Bangkok on July 5. He was given a visa following a message from his American business partner, Charles Anteby.