Siddiqul Farooq abducted, released after four hours
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ISLAMABAD (Agencies) - A prominent opposition leader from the party of deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was kidnapped and held for four hours by unidentified men Tuesday, his family and party officials said.
Siddiqul Farooq, a top aide to Sharif, was abducted by more than a dozen men two days after accusing the Federal Railways Minister of massive corruption.
“Around 15 men attacked Farooq’s car in Rawalpindi as he was on his way to work, manhandled him and forcibly took him away,” chief organiser of the PML(N), Ahsan Iqbal, told AFP.
Farooq, the PML(N)’s central Information Secretary and an outspoken critic of President Pervez Musharraf’s three year military regime, was released four hours later in forest some 35 kilometers away, his son Mahmoodul said.
“He has called home and said he had been released at a deserted place in Havelian,” north of Islamabad, Mahmoodul told AFP.
“They beat me, broke my mobile phone and took away all the cash from my pocket,” he quoted his father as telling the family. Mahmoodul said his father would elaborate more on what happened when he returned home.
Iqbal linked the attack to Farooq’s corruption claims against Railways and Communications Minister, retired Lieutenant General Javed Ashraf Qazi.
“This is worst kind of victimisation by the the military junta of Pervez Musharraf,” he said, adding that Farooq had received several threats since publicising the graft claims.
“He has been punished for exposing the corruption of the Minister Javed Ashraf.”
Farooq went public on Sunday with claims that Qazi and his accomplices, including two other retired generals, had siphoned off five billion rupees in kickbacks and unlawful commissions through illegally leasing railway lands and making purchases without open tenders.
He asked the National Accountability Bureau to register a case against Qazi and his accomplices, confiscate their passports and seized their assets “as per procedure that NAB has been following in other cases of corruption.”
Qazi has vehemently denied the claims in local media interviews.
Farooq has been one of Sharif’s closest aides since his first term as Prime Minister from 1990 to 1993. Sharif was toppled and jailed in military coup led by General Musharraf — then army chief — in October 1999, two years into his second Prime Ministerial term.
PML(N) —> 
So you are now a PML(Q) fan? To be honest, I prefer the PML(N) over the PML(Q)… Atleast they had the courtesy to run the elections without all that love-musharraf campaign.
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*Originally posted by Spock: *
So you are now a PML(Q) fan?
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Nope!