{{An ANC member and Vaal businessman has been taken by unknown men in Pakistan mere hours before he was due to fly back to his family in South Africa. }} <\/p>\n
Arshad Ali\u2019s wife told Eyewitness News she was not coping following her husband\u2019s capture by four men on his way to Lahore Airport.<\/p>\n
Ali was taken last Tuesday. According to The Star he had gone to Pakistan to fetch his elderly mother and bring her back to South Africa.<\/p>\n
Him and his mother were apparently being transported by his brother when they were stopped at a roadblock. The roadblock was operated by Pakistan’s anti-terrorism and anti-smuggling unit and the country’s intelligence service.<\/p>\n
His wife says his family believes he was not kidnapped but rather taken by unknown men in full view of Pakistan’s police.<\/p>\n
Ali is the ANC\u2019s chairperson in Meyerton. <\/p>\n
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