ISLAMABAD: Police are snap checking vehicles at the Sindh Punjab border after they received a tip off that Sindh High Court Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah’s son Owais Ali Shah will be transferred to a different location.
On the federal government’s directives police installed checkpoints at the Sindh-Punjab border on Friday. Police said kidnappers may transfer Owais Ali Shah out of Sindh donned in female clothing.
Checkpoints were installed at Sindh-Punjab border areas; Kot Sabzal and Daud Wala. Vehicles traveling from Sindh to Punjab are being checked.
According to police, three SHOs, 12 female police officers and 40 policemen have been deployed on guard duties. “Every eight hours a new contingent is deployed,” police said.
Security forces are conducting search operations in Karachi every day in a bid to find leads to the kidnapping case.
Rangers on Friday raided Karachi Water Board’s residential colony in Dhabeji and arrested eight suspects belonging to a political party, sources said.
Police arrested a suspected terrorist belonging to a banned organization from Federal Industrial area in Karachi.
The suspects were reportedly also involved in target killing incidents.
An eight member committee which includes two DIGs is investigating the kidnapping of Owais Ali Shah.
On June 21, Owais Ali Shah was kidnapped by four men in white Shalwar Kameez, when he went shopping at a store in Karachi’s Clifton area.
This is not the first high profile kidnapping in the country. In August 2011, slain governor Punjab's son Shahbaz Taseer was kidnapped from Lahore by the Taliban. He returned home after four years of torture in captivity in March this year.
Former Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's son Ali Haider Gilani was kidnapped from an election rally in Multan in May 2013. He was rescued in an operation in Afghanistan by American forces in May this year.