Unwelcome Company: 4 diners at highway hotel kidnapped

SUKKUR: Four residents from Khairpur district, who went missing two days ago, are believed to have been kidnapped for ransom. Salahuddin Mandan, Aijaz Mandan, Imran Siddiqui and Ahmed Ali Pathan, went to have dinner at a highway hotel near Gambat taluka. The kidnappers told the police that all four men were with them in the kachcha or swamps by Larkana. The caller demanded a ransom of Rs10 million for their release. The man said that he would tell them how to find the car of the abducted men.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 13^th, 2011.