Two students seized in Khuzdar

Two university students are whisked away by armed men late at night.

QUETTA: Two university students were whisked away by armed men late on Tuesday night near Rabia Khuzdari Road in Khuzdar city.

Qazi Hassan Ali, the father of the two young men, accused the paramilitary Frontier Corps of taking his sons hostage.

According to him, a group of armed men barged into their house at 2am and tied him and his sons with ropes and blindfolded them. “The armed men tortured us. We recognised them, they were FC troops,” he added. “Later, the armed men whisked away my sons – Munir Ahmed Sasoli and Saud Sasoli – at gunpoint. “I chased them and saw them entering an FC camp in Khatan, a locality of Khuzdar City,” he alleged.

Ali said his sons had no affiliation with any organisation or political party. “They are students,” he told journalists. He appealed to President Asif Zardari for the safe recovery of his sons.

Meanwhile, scores of students at the Balochistan University of Engineering and Technology, Khuzdar, staged a rally to condemn the “abduction” of the two brothers. They shouted slogans against the government, accusing them of spoiling the academic atmosphere in educational institutions by resorting to such unlawful activities.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 28^th, 2010.