The army officer and his two brothers — one serving in the Cantonment Board Head Office, Rawalpindi, and the other working for the National Database and Registration Authrity (Nadra) — were in a mosque in Mohalla Khadr Khel of Kalachi tehsil receiving people, who had come to condole their father’s demise, when suspected militants came and forcefully took them away.
The three officers had come to their ancestral area for funeral prayer of their father that was offered on Tuesday.
While Kulachi police confirmed the incident, higher police authorities neither confirmed nor denied it.
On August 1, the van of a private security company, carrying Rs40 million, was hijacked by armed suspects within the limits of the Hathala police station in the Kulachi area.
The hostages, including guards, driver and crew were later released while the van was set on fire. The robbers fled with the cash.
On April 27, District and Sessions Judge South Waziristan Shakir Ullah Marwat was abducted from Dera Ismail Khan-Tank Road near the Kulachi area. However, he returned home soon after the incident.
Local residents told that in Kulachi, a school teacher named Ameer Khan suddenly passed away. After his burial, his three sons, identified as Muhammad Asif, Khalid Khan, and Fahad Nawaz, were present at the mosque where family and friends gathered for condolence.
Suddenly, eight to 10 armed men reached the scene on motorbikes, entered the mosque, and kidnapped the three brothers and their naib-tehsildar nephew after thoroughly checking all men present there.
Upon receiving the report, the police reached the spot and started an investigation. Locals said that the kidnapped brothers worked for the Cantonment Board and the National Commission for Human Development (NCHD). The incident caused widespread panic among local residents.
It is worth recalling that commercial banks have closed down their branches in Daraban tehsil of the troubled DI Khan district.
