HuT spokesman abducted

HuT alleges intelligence agencies had abducted their spokesman. No official confirmation of detention.

LAHORE: The banned group Hizbut Tahrir (HuT) has alleged that their official spokesman, Naveed Butt, has been abducted by intelligence agencies from Lahore on Friday.

According to contents of an SMS sent out by the HuT, and subsequently confirmed by Shahzad Shaikh, deputy to the spokesman HuT in Pakistan that Butt had been abducted in Lahore as he returned home with his children from school.

They said that HuT would to continue its struggle.

Officials of police and intelligence agencies had not confirmed the detention of till the filling of this report.