PESHAWAR, March 27: An assistant professor of Anatomy department, Khyber Medical College, Dr Rahim Bangash, was kidnapped near Darra Adam Khel when he was on his way home in the city from Kohat.

In a press release faxed to newspaper offices here on Wednesday, Dr Salma Rahim, wife of Dr Rahim Bangash, claimed that her husband was kidnapped by some unidentified persons near Dara Adam Khel when he was going to Peshawar from Kohat on Monday.

She appealed to the kidnappers to release the doctor on humanitarian grounds as he was a diabetic and needed being administered insulin twice a day.

It is pertinent to mention here that he is the second doctor after Dr Inayat Roghani, brother of the provincial health minister Mehr Taj Roghani, who was kidnapped in one week.

Meanwhile, the Teachers Association of the Khyber Medical College has demanded safe and early recovery of the two doctors kidnapped in a week in Peshawar.

The president of the association Dr Shafiqur Rehman and General Secretary Dr Ejaz Khattak expressed deep concern over the kidnapping of Dr Rahim Bangash and Dr Inayat Shah Roghani at a meeting held at the Khyber Medical College here on Wednesday.