QUETTA:- Twenty-two bus passengers, travelling from Karachi to Gwadar, who were abducted and looted in Pasni tehsil of Balochistan’s Gwadar district, were released by captors on Wednesday. The passengers were held hostage by armed men and released after Frontier Corps and intelligence agencies exerted pressure on the captors. Commissioner Makran Division Bashir Bangulzai told media persons that passengers were trying to enter Iran illegally.–INP
He said the passengers who belonged to various parts of the country were illegal immigrants travelling from Karachi to Gwadar via Pasni.
When security agencies came to know the passengers had been abducted, they launched an operation against the kidnappers, subsequently mounting pressure on them to release the passengers.
Bangulzai confirmed the abductors freed the passengers after looting them.
“An operation has also been launched to apprehend human smugglers,” Bangulzai said.