Happy homecoming: Abducted doctor reaches home

Khan is mentally, physically sound with no marks of violence on body.

ISLAMABAD:

A doctor who was allegedly abducted from the Kashmir Highway near Peshawar Mor returned home safely on Monday, a month after the incident took place.

Hailing from North Waziristan, Dr Ehsanullah Khan was kidnapped on November 8 by two unidentified men travelling in two separate vehicles.

Khan, who was dropped in the vicinity of his home in Sector F-6, is sound both mentally and physically, with no marks of violence on his body, according to sources.

For his family, the doctor’s return was no less than a miracle. “He was standing in front of us with a smile on his face. It was unbelievable,” said one of his relatives requesting anonymity.

The relative, though happy, also seemed puzzled at Khan’s homecoming at a time when the Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) has directed the authorities to produce missing persons and added that the abducted was taken care of by the people who took him.

The treatment he had been given included provision of three meals a day, and all of his choice.

Though he is physically sound, he still is not in condition to talk directly to media representatives, his relatives added.

According to the family, the kidnappers neither asked for ransom, nor threatened the victim any further.

The son-in-law of a serving bureaucrat, Khan had been living at the doctors’ hostel of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) with his wife and two children for the last four years.

On November 8, after completing his specialisation in dermatology, Khan was leaving for North Waziristan to celebrate his achievement with the rest of his family when he was allegedly abducted.

The victim’s wife, Maryam Ehsanm lodged a first information report at the Sabzi Mandi Police Station in which she had stated that neither Khan nor his family had received any threatening calls in the past.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 10^th, 2013.