KARACHI: Kidnappers release two men

Published September 30, 2003

KARACHI, Sept 29: Two of the three persons, kidnapped at a farm house in Surjani Town, were released by their captors on Monday.

According to the police and Citizen-Police Liaison Committee (CPLC), some unidentified armed men stormed into a farm house in Surjani police limits and robbed Shahid Jamil and his family at gunpoint. Having looted them, the armed men took away Mr Jamil, along with a security guard of the farm Akbar and a gardener Maula Bux.

The captors on Monday, let off Akbar and Maula Bux, who told the police and the CPLC that the captors of Mr Jamil took him towards Sakran in Balochistan.

Surjani police registered a case and started investigation with the help of the CPLC. Mr Jamil was an employee in the Pak-American Culture Centre (PACC) and resident of Garden East.

“We have not received any call for ransom,” an official in the CPLC said. However, the police and the CPLC had been trying their best to locate the captive.

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