Five out of six PTCL employees recovered from Balochistan

QUETTA: Five employees of the Pakistan Telecommunication Limited (PTCL) who were kidnapped on February 6 have been recovered after an exchange of fire between security forces and kidnappers in the Zhob district.

The kidnappers phones were intercepted and traced, Deputy Commissioner Nazhir Mohammed Khethran told The Express Tribune.

“Balochistan Levies and Frontier Corps (FC) jointly launched a search operation at 4am in Kamardin Karez area,” he said, adding that the sixth person kidnapped has not been recovered as yet.

“A son of PTCL employee was among the people kidnapped but could not be traced. Operation is underway to find him,” he said.

The recovered kidnapped PTCL employees have been identified as Sub-Divisional Officer (SDO) Naeem Ashraf, Engineer Haji Asad, driver Tahir, Miraz Shujahat Beigh and Ghulam Abbas.

Security officials have traced the kidnappers’ vehicle after intercepting their calls, a senior Levies official said and the operation to trace them is still underway