CHARSADDA: A group of armed men on Thursday allegedly kidnapped a journalist from a busy bazaar in a broad daylight subjected him to torture, dragged him to the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) office, humiliated him there and video filmed the criminal act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The accused, identified as Abdullah, Iftikhar, Faheem, sons of Zaidullah, Saadat and Sher Ali and others kidnapped Saifullah Jan, a correspondent for the Associated Press of Pakistan, Daily Islam and a member of the Charsadda Press Club General Body from a bakery in the Sardheri Chowk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The eyewitnesses said the armed accused dragged the journalist on the road and took him to the PTI office as the people in the bazaar stood helplessly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The armed accused locked the journalist in the PTI office. They allegedly tortured and humiliated the journalist at gunpoint and made a video of the crime. They hurled serious threats at him as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When contacted, the aggrieved journalist, Saifullah Jan, told reporters that the accused had tortured him in the past for which he had lodged a complaint at the Sardheri Police Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said the police completed the investigation and registered a first information report (FIR) against the influential accused a day before which infuriated them and they tortured him again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sardheri Police registered a case and launched raids to arrest the accused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charsadda District Police Officer Muhammad Shuaib Khan assured that the accused would be arrested soon as the FIR had been registered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It may be mentioned here that the main accused in the kidnapping and torture case, Abdullah, is a local leader of the PTI and his brother is a District Zakat Committee chairman.

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