QUETTA: Levies personnel on Thursday recovered four kidnapped people in Taftan town near the Pak-Iran border and arrested two suspected kidnappers.

Official sources said that armed men kidnapped the four Afghan nationals in Taftan a few days ago.

Acting on a tip-off about the whereabouts of the kidnapped persons, the Levies men raided a house in the Killi Station area of town and recovered them.

Taftan Assistant Commissioner Mir Zafar Kubdani identified the recovered people as Aminullah, Falak Naz, Mohammad Gul and Mohammad Darwesh, and the alleged kidnappers as Abdul Khaliq and Abdul Samad.

Published in Dawn, May 26th, 2017

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