On 9th of January 2009 Awami National Party Finance secretary and owner of daily Taseer Mr. Salamat Khan Orakzai was kidnapped near Nakbund village located on Kohat Pindi road, according to his newspaper reporters Mr. Sahibzada Afridi and Mr. Munawar Orakzai he was coming from Pindi towards Kohat when abductors abducted him near Nakbund village of Khushal Garh Union Council Kohat, they have further added that no contact is so far made by abductors regarding ransom for his release with his family or friends.
Abducted Salamat Khan Orakzai by himself is from Orakzai tribe and is a resident of Orakzai Agency, but was doing business in Kohat. ‘He also owns some property in Fateh Jung area of Punjab,’ his friend Inayat Orkzai had said. Prior to his abduction he had received threats from certain quarters,’ disclosed by reporter Mumtaz Bangash. His Uncle was also abducted last year but was recovered in a police raid from Khwaja Abad area of Kohat.
His valiant newspaper reporters and other staff members were busy in filing stories and doing their routine tasks in daily Taseer office in Kohat on Monday evening when I went their to confirm his abduction news and express sympathy with him and his family.
During last few decades hundreds of people from Kohat and other areas of NWFP were kidnapped for ransom many of them were released after payment of ransom by their families, good number of them were killed by the abductors, but in most of the cases people abducted from settled areas were kept in tribal areas of Pakistan, few of the abducted persons have also succeeded to escape from the prison cells of abductors, ‘last year Farooq Mechanic abducted from Kohat had escaped from the prison located in tribal area adjacent to Peshawar, he had got a chance to enter in a truck after unloading bricks from it, abductors were getting forced labor from prisoners to construct a building in tribal area,’ his agedly sister Madam Kishwar had said.
‘Abductors openly move around in their cars, get near to their target and use chloroform soaked handkerchief to make their target unconscious and after pulling unconscious victim into their car escape towards tribal areas. Abductors had also applied chloroform soaked handkerchief to kidnap her brother,’ Madam Kishwar had said.
‘When people of settled areas unable to pay back loans to their tribal financiers, they are abducted by their financiers, rich tribesmen provide loans on high interest rates to the needy people residing in settled areas of NWFP, business rivalries are also a major reason behind abductions,’ a source has said on condition of anonymity.
Mian Iftikhar Provincial Minister of ruling Awami National Party of NWFP in a talk show on VOA Urdu had unveiled that terrorist organizations create funds by doing kidnap for ransom acts.
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