RAWALPINDI: The police have decided to send a team to Nepal to investigate the disappearance of retired Lt Col Habib Zahir who mysteriously went missing in the country earlier this month.

Muhammad Saad Habib, son of the missing retired officer, has suspected involvement of anti-state elements in the kidnapping and lodged an FIR with Rawat police on April 8.

After the case was registered, a Rawalpindi police officer wrote a letter to acting Inspector General of Punjab, retired Capt Usman Khattak, seeking permission from the ministries concerned for sending a team to Nepal’s Lumbini town, near the Indian border, where the retired army officer had gone for a job interview.

Published in Dawn, April 15th, 2017