Balochistan minister’s abducted son returns home

Son of a provincial minister of Balochistan returned home more than three months after he was abducted

QUETTA: The son of a provincial minister of Balochistan returned home on Thursday more than three months after he was abducted from a border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

“Asad Khan Tareen, the 28-year-old son of Local Bodies Minister Sardar Mustafa Khan Tareen, was recovered from the Dolangi area of Gulistan tehsil in Qilla Abdullah district,” said Abdul Wahid Kakar, the deputy commissioner of Pishin. “Tareen is apprently in good health,” he said.



Earlier in the day, security forces launched search operations in different areas of Pishin and Qilla Abdullah districts and raided compounds in an Afghan refugee camp in Surkhab area.

Tareen, a mess administrator at a cadet college, went missing after he headed out on May 20. Later it turned out that he was abducted. It is unclear whether Tareen’s recovery was the result of some agreement or ransom payment.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 9^th, 2016.