Missing cleric found dead
Police said Syed Waliullah Shah was returning home from a mosque in 2008 when unidentified people kidnapped him.
BANNU:
The body of a cleric who went missing six years ago from Bannu city was found in a field in Peran Daud Shah on Tuesday.
Cantonment police official Jalil said Syed Waliullah Shah was returning home from a mosque in 2008 when unidentified people kidnapped him. Shah’s whereabouts had not been known since then.
However, on Tuesday, a passer-by spotted a body in Peran Daud Shah and informed the police who arrived at the site and shifted the body to the police station, said Jalil.
He added that a member of Shah’s family identified the deceased and the body was handed over to him.
In a separate incident, militants attacked a check post in Frontier Region Bannu in the early hours of the morning. Fortunately, no human loss occurred. A security forces official said around 3am two men on a motorbike stopped near a check post in Teen Tanga and opened fire. He added the officials on duty shot at the militants in retaliation, forcing them to flee.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 16th, 2014.
The body of a cleric who went missing six years ago from Bannu city was found in a field in Peran Daud Shah on Tuesday.
Cantonment police official Jalil said Syed Waliullah Shah was returning home from a mosque in 2008 when unidentified people kidnapped him. Shah’s whereabouts had not been known since then.
However, on Tuesday, a passer-by spotted a body in Peran Daud Shah and informed the police who arrived at the site and shifted the body to the police station, said Jalil.
He added that a member of Shah’s family identified the deceased and the body was handed over to him.
In a separate incident, militants attacked a check post in Frontier Region Bannu in the early hours of the morning. Fortunately, no human loss occurred. A security forces official said around 3am two men on a motorbike stopped near a check post in Teen Tanga and opened fire. He added the officials on duty shot at the militants in retaliation, forcing them to flee.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 16th, 2014.