Orakzai abductions: Body found, three still missing

Body was found in Lower Orakzai agency on Monday.

HANGU: The body of a man who was kidnapped by militants last week from Stori Khel area, was found in Lower Orakzai agency on Monday. Sher Awan had been taken along with his three colleagues, Iran Gul, Zahidullah and Awal Mir Gul. According to a political administration officer, militants decapitated the man and threw his body on the side of a road. His three colleagues are still missing. The four men were of the Akka Khel sub-clan of the Afridi tribe and were abducted at gunpoint while they were waiting for a vehicle at a roadside in Laghri Kallay. The official added that they were businessmen and had come to the agency on business.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 4^th, 2012.