Pakistan Army According to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa areas Dera Ismail Khan The abducted lieutenant colonel and his three relatives have been released ‘safely and unconditionally’.
According to the statement issued by the Public Relations Department of the Pakistan Army ISPR on Saturday, the release of the kidnapped Lt. Col. Khalid Ameer and his relatives was carried out safely with the help of dignitaries and tribal elders of the area.
ISPR said in a statement that all the hostages have returned home safely.
A few days ago, the police of Dera Ismail Khan said that armed men kidnapped a lieutenant colonel of Pakistan Army along with his two brothers and nephew in Tehsil Kalachi.
According to the police, the incident took place in Dera Ismail Khan’s Kalachi police station at around 6 pm on Wednesday (August 28) and the men were abducted when they were sitting in a mosque to recite Fatiha for the father of an army officer. were
According to the initial report of the police, these four people were sitting in the mosque to recite Fatiha when the armed men abducted them at gunpoint.
According to the police, one brother of the army officer who is among the abducted persons is the Assistant Commissioner of Cantonment Board Rawalpindi while the other brother is employed in NADRA.
The in-charge of DI Khan Police Control Room told Independent Urdu that Lt. Colonel, Assistant Commissioner of Cantonment Board and NADRA employee along with nephew were abducted from the mosque.
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According to the initial report of the police, these four people were sitting in the mosque to recite Fatiha when the armed men abducted them at gunpoint.
An official of the Kalachi police station, on condition of anonymity due to security concerns, told Independent Urdu that ‘the three government officials did not live permanently in the area but had come to pay their respects to their father.’
He said that ‘the area where this incident took place is an operational area and the border of Quetta-Zhob is close to it and the border of Afghanistan is at some distance from it.’
The area of Kalachi is considered to be disturbed in terms of law and order and an official of the police station of the same area told Independent Urdu some time ago that it becomes difficult even for the police to go out after evening as extremism has increased in the area. has gone
Dera Ismail Khan is the third most affected district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after North and South Waziristan in terms of extremism, one of the various reasons being the location of this district.
Due to the connection between North and South Waziristan, many incidents of extremism have happened here.
According to the Home Department data, a total of 98 acts of militancy took place in DI Khan in 2023, during which 21 personnel of the security forces lost their lives.
Similarly, a major act of militancy took place at an army camp in Daraband in December 2023, where at least 23 army personnel were killed in a suicide attack, according to police. In this attack, militants had rammed a vehicle full of explosives into the camp.
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2024-09-01 03:23:16