Asfand Yar Wali's cousin kidnapped

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Well we can of course assume that it's not related to terrorism but kidnapping for ransom, but considering what the ANP has been going through for their anti-Taliban stance, this is worrying. Also, Asfand Yar Wali's absence from Pakistan while irksome, is sometimes justified considering the level of threats faced by ANP leadership (not that I consider it to be right to be absent from the country all the time due to security fears).

ANP chief’s cousin abducted from Peshawar

By Akhtar Amin

PESHAWAR: Vice chancellor (VC) of the Islamia College University Dr Ajmal Khan, and the cousin of Awami National Party (ANP) chief Asfandyar Wali Khan was kidnapped by unidentified gunmen on Tuesday, police and officials said.

Campus Peace Corps (CPC) Superintendent of Police (SP) Ijaz Ahmed told Daily Times that Khan was kidnapped from the Professors’ Colony area of the university campus at around 9am.

He added that the VC, accompanied by his driver, was on his way to his office, when six armed men stopped his vehicle and kidnapped him at gunpoint. The SP said that the armed men took Khan towards Nasir Bagh.

He said that the police was searching for the kidnappers, and so far the kidnappers had not contacted Khan’s family.

Ahmed said that terrorists were behind the VC’s kidnapping and he probably had been shifted to Khyber Agency, which is close to the Nasir Bagh area. Khan is the second VC to be kidnapped during the ongoing militancy.

He had been one of the senior most academicians of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

 

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Asfan Wali himself has organised target killing of hundreds of residents of NWFP and Karachi since he assumed power.

Recently, released Japanese informed, it is Northern Alliance warlords running such kidnap rackets for minting money and branding them self as Taliban.
If it is northern alliance behind this kidnapping as usual than he will be released once govt. of Pakistan send few million$ as payment of his ransom.