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Son of murdered Pakistan governor rescued after years in captivity
Source: The Guardian
Son of murdered Pakistan governor rescued after years in captivity
Shahbaz Taseer, who was kidnapped in 2011, is discovered alive
days after his father’s killer is executed
Jon Boone in Islamabad
Tuesday 8 March 2016 19.08 GMT
One of Pakistan’s most high-profile kidnap victims – the son of the assassinated businessman and politician Salmaan Taseer – has been rescued after nearly five years in captivity.
Shahbaz Taseer, the 33-year-old son of the former governor of Punjab, was picked up by security forces on Tuesday from a restaurant in Kuchlak, an impoverished town in the restive province of Balochistan.
Hours after his rescue, an army spokesman, Asim Bajwa, tweeted pictures of a smiling Taseer who he said was “hale and hearty”
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Kuchlak is a world apart from Gulberg, the elite neighbourhood of Lahore where Taseer was dragged out of his Mercedes sports car near his office on 26 August 2011 and taken away by gunmen.
The kidnapping came just months after his father was shot dead by one of his police guards, an extremist called Mumtaz Qadri, who was angered by Salmaan Taseer’s campaign against Pakistan’s notorious blasphemy laws.
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Shahbaz Taseer, who was kidnapped in 2011, is discovered alive
days after his father’s killer is executed
Jon Boone in Islamabad
Tuesday 8 March 2016 19.08 GMT
One of Pakistan’s most high-profile kidnap victims – the son of the assassinated businessman and politician Salmaan Taseer – has been rescued after nearly five years in captivity.
Shahbaz Taseer, the 33-year-old son of the former governor of Punjab, was picked up by security forces on Tuesday from a restaurant in Kuchlak, an impoverished town in the restive province of Balochistan.
Hours after his rescue, an army spokesman, Asim Bajwa, tweeted pictures of a smiling Taseer who he said was “hale and hearty”
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Kuchlak is a world apart from Gulberg, the elite neighbourhood of Lahore where Taseer was dragged out of his Mercedes sports car near his office on 26 August 2011 and taken away by gunmen.
The kidnapping came just months after his father was shot dead by one of his police guards, an extremist called Mumtaz Qadri, who was angered by Salmaan Taseer’s campaign against Pakistan’s notorious blasphemy laws.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/08/shahbaz-taseer-son-murdered-pakistan-governor-found-years-captivity
