Unknown motives: ANP activist’s son kidnapped in Swabi

SWABI: Son of former Ismailia Union Council nazim and Awami National Party local leader Farid Khan was allegedly kidnapped by unidentified people when he was on his way to school in Swabi on Friday.  Police official Rajab Ali said Khan filed a case with the police stating his 11-year-old son Zarak Khan was on his way to school in Swabi when four masked men on a motorcycle intercepted his school van at Nazar road. They took Zarak with them at gunpoint. Following the complaint, police blocked all entry and exit routes to the area. A case was filed, but an FIR was not registered.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 26^th, 2013.