RAWALPINDI: Two separate kidnapping cases were registered with Ratta Amral police based on orders from a judicial commission on missing persons.

The cases were lodged by families who claim their sons were picked up by intelligence officials for their links with banned outfits.

The victims, Mohammad Muneeb and Asad Khan, were registered with police on Thursday, after a five month effort on the part of their families to register the kidnapping cases.

Mohammad Khurshid of Dhoke Hassu stated in his complaint that he had severed ties with his older son, Mohammad Mubashir, after he began associating with militant groups and started fighting in Kashmir and Afghanistan.

Khurshid said his younger son, who is a student, went to his brother’s home to meet his brother’s wife. During his visit he received a phone call, and after answering it, he left his brother’s home and went to a nearby hotel.

He said that Muneeb was picked up by intelligence officials from the hotel on March 18. He claimed that the next day intelligence officials, acccompanied by Muneeb, also picked up his daughter-in-law.

Khurshid said after investigating his daughter-in-law, officials released her from their custody but have not released his younger son.

Khurshid said that his elder son, Mubashir, who took part in Jihad in Kashmir and Afghanistan, was previously arrested by Pakistani intelligence agencies but later released.

He stated that following his release, Mubashir left his family and disappeared for around two years and did not reveal his whereabouts. Khurshid said that instead of searching for his elder son, who participated in the Afghan Jihad for the sake of his country, officials kidnapped his younger son, who was not connected to such activities.

A separate but similar case was also registered with Ratta Amral police following the intervention of the court, based on a complaint by Muhammad Sadiq of Dhoke Hassu.

Sadiq stated that his nephew Asad Khan and his cousin Tahir Khan were at his home on March 18 when the station house officer of Ratta Amral, along with a subordinate officer in civilian clothing, entered his home and identified themselves as intelligence officials.

He said that the officials threatened his relatives and accused them off imparting terrorism training in the past, and later picked them up in police vehicles. He said Tahir Khan was later released, but that Asad Khan is still missing.

Published in Dawn, September 5th, 2015

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