A former governor of Afghanistan’s Herat province who was kidnapped from a market in an upscale district of Islamabad this month has been recovered, the Afghan Consulate in Peshawar confirmed today (Friday).
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Wahidi’s son, Nemat Wahidi informed that his father was found and handed over to THE Afghanistan consulate in Peshawar, reports The Express Tribune.
“I can confirm that Fazlullah Wahidi was recovered early Friday as I have talked to him”. The former governor and an influential Afghan leader had earlier arrived in the federal capital along with his family to get visas to travel to United Kingdom as British embassy in Kabul does not directly issue visas to Afghan nationals.
It is also not clear who had kidnapped Mr. Wahid who went missing from the vicinity of Islamabad on 12th February.
Police were unable to identify the abductors, but recovered the Afghan politician after an exchange of fire with the kidnappers. His health is great, though he said he is a little exhausted.
So far no group claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of the governor who was close to former president Hamid Karzai.
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By Friday afternoon, Wahidi had been moved to the Afghan Embassy in Islamabad and was preparing to return home, said Abdul Nasir Yousofi, the embassy’s political counselor.
