KHAIRPUR: Four go missing

Published August 15, 2008

KHAIRPUR, Aug 14: Four friends went missing near Karampur of Kandhkot district on Thursday.

According to relatives, Nafees Shaikh, Imran Abbasi, Malik Shaikh and Tanvir Brohi had gone to attend a ceremony on the invitation of one of their friend whom the relatives did not know.

Aijaz Abbasi, a social worker and uncle of Imran Abbasi, suspected that the boys might have been kidnapped because they were receiving messages from their cell phones that they were powered off.

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