For ransom: PML-N MPA kidnapped near Sargodha
Abductors ask wife to arrange Rs50 million in three days.
Rana Jamil Hassan. PHOTO: FILE
LAHORE:
Ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz MPA Rana Jamil Hassan Khan was kidnapped at gunpoint by six men on the Motorway near Sial Morr, Sargodha Interchange, early Saturday morning. He was elected to the Punjab Assembly from PP-174 (Nankana Sahib).
Hassan was travelling with his wife in his white Toyota Corolla to Islamabad after attending the funeral of a relative in Noshera Virkan tehsil of Gujranwala. Police officials told The Express Tribune that the MPA and his wife, Zeba Jamil, pulled up at the Sial Morr service area for a tea break and the incident took place a few minutes later.
Zeba told the police that the kidnappers, in two cars, hit Hassan’s car in a bid to stop them and then forced them into one of their vehicles at gunpoint.
The suspects searched them and found visiting cards and letterheads of the MPA and asked him whether he was a legislator. When Hassan revealed that he was, the accused started using abusive language, decrying all politicians. Immediately after, the kidnappers blindfolded them and drove for an hour, after which they shifted his wife to the second car.
After two hours, they reached Rawalpindi and just drove around the city. “I’m assuming we were following the car in which they had my husband. May be they decided to take me along until they dropped him off to their safe location so that I don’t inform the law-enforcement agencies in time,” Zeba told the police. She was left near Rawalpindi at about 2:30 am and was told to arrange Rs50 million within three days.
The MPA’s brother, Wakeel Ahmed Khan, said Rana Jamil Hassan had no enemies and the main reason for kidnapping seems to be ransom.
A joint investigation team, headed by Additional IG Counterterrorism Department (CTD), sifted through the footage from the CCTV cameras, which supported Zeba’s stance. Police officials said the CCTV footage has captured the abductors and their vehicles but their faces or the licence plates are not clear.
A case has been registered at Luxian police station, Sargodha.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 1st, 2014.
Ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz MPA Rana Jamil Hassan Khan was kidnapped at gunpoint by six men on the Motorway near Sial Morr, Sargodha Interchange, early Saturday morning. He was elected to the Punjab Assembly from PP-174 (Nankana Sahib).
Hassan was travelling with his wife in his white Toyota Corolla to Islamabad after attending the funeral of a relative in Noshera Virkan tehsil of Gujranwala. Police officials told The Express Tribune that the MPA and his wife, Zeba Jamil, pulled up at the Sial Morr service area for a tea break and the incident took place a few minutes later.
Zeba told the police that the kidnappers, in two cars, hit Hassan’s car in a bid to stop them and then forced them into one of their vehicles at gunpoint.
The suspects searched them and found visiting cards and letterheads of the MPA and asked him whether he was a legislator. When Hassan revealed that he was, the accused started using abusive language, decrying all politicians. Immediately after, the kidnappers blindfolded them and drove for an hour, after which they shifted his wife to the second car.
After two hours, they reached Rawalpindi and just drove around the city. “I’m assuming we were following the car in which they had my husband. May be they decided to take me along until they dropped him off to their safe location so that I don’t inform the law-enforcement agencies in time,” Zeba told the police. She was left near Rawalpindi at about 2:30 am and was told to arrange Rs50 million within three days.
The MPA’s brother, Wakeel Ahmed Khan, said Rana Jamil Hassan had no enemies and the main reason for kidnapping seems to be ransom.
A joint investigation team, headed by Additional IG Counterterrorism Department (CTD), sifted through the footage from the CCTV cameras, which supported Zeba’s stance. Police officials said the CCTV footage has captured the abductors and their vehicles but their faces or the licence plates are not clear.
A case has been registered at Luxian police station, Sargodha.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 1st, 2014.