Islamabad: Pakistani security and intelligence agencies have found the kidnapped son of slain former provincial governor Salman Taseer from southwestern Balochistan province bordering Afghanistan.
After remaining in captivity for over five years, Shahbas Taseer was recovered on Tuesday from the Kuchilak area of Balochistan, according to the military’s public relations wing.
“Intelligence agencies have recovered Shahbaz Taseer from an area near Kuchlak in Balochistan,” said a statement released by the Inter-Services Public Relations.
Unidentified gunmen had abducted Shahbaz from Lahore on August 26, 2011, months after his father, then governor of Punjab, was shot dead by his police bodyguard Mumtaz Qadri
Qadri, who confessed to killing the governor in a marketplace in Islamabad because of his calls for reforms to the country’s laws related to blasphemy offence, was hanged to death in Rawalpindi jail near here a week ago.
Shahbaz was whisked away from a place near his company’s head office in Gulberg area of Lahore, the provincial capital.
According to media reports, it was believed that Taseer was held captive by a group that was negotiating the release of Salman Taseer’s killer and other prisoners.
