Pakistani police on Friday claimed that they had arrested the leader of the gang that kidnapped former premier Yousuf Raza Gilani’s son Ali Haider, even as security forces were continuing their search for him.
Haider was abducted on May 9 while he was campaigning in his hometown of Multan in Punjab province for the elections. The kidnappers shot and killed his secretary and a bodyguard. Police officials told the media that they arrested the suspect ring leader, identified as Wazir Gul, in Mardan district of the northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
Gul is the brother of one of the six persons arrested in neighbouring Nowshera district on Thursday. like the others arrested, Gul is an Afghan national. He is wanted by police for several crimes, officials said.
Wahab, an activist of the PMl-N party, said Haider and 5 other kidnapped persons had been held at the same place but Haider was moved shortly before police raided the hideout. He said Haider had been brought to the place in an injured condition.