KARACHI: Hostage returns home

Published August 12, 2002

KARACHI, Aug 11: A collector exports of the Pakistan Customs, Aftab Anwar Baloch, who had been kidnapped on July 18 in Gizri returned home on Sunday.

A senior police officer confirmed the return home of Mr Baloch and said Mr Baloch told him that three people had kidnapped him in Gizri on July 22. They forced him to sit in a grey Suzuki Khyber and took him to Super Highway where he was confined in a house.

He told police that his captors spoke different local languages, including Sindhi, Punjabi and Balochi. He said the captors told him that he would be killed because he had not cleared their consignments.

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