{"id":23777,"date":"2016-03-08T22:59:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T22:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kidnapped-son-of-slain-governor-found-alive-in\/"},"modified":"2016-03-08T22:59:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T22:59:19","slug":"kidnapped-son-of-slain-governor-found-alive-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kidnapped-son-of-slain-governor-found-alive-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidnapped son of slain governor found alive in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Officials say Shahbaz Taseer, who was seized from Lahore in 2011, found in &#8220;feeble&#8221; health in a compound in Balochistan.}<\/p>\n<p>Pakistani officials say the kidnapped son of a top provincial official killed by his bodyguard has been found alive, just over a week after his father&#8217;s killer was hanged.<\/p>\n<p>Shahbaz Taseer had been kidnapped by armed men, reportedly the Taliban, from the city of Lahore in August 2011, a  few months after his father Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab, was killed for opposing Pakistan&#8217;s controversial blasphemy laws.<\/p>\n<p>Aitzaz Goraya, the head of the Counterterrorism Department of Balochistan province, told AFP news agency: &#8220;Yes, we have recovered him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Acting on a tip-off, intelligence forces and police went to a compound in the Kuchlak district some 25km north of Quetta.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We surrounded the compound and we raided it. We didn&#8217;t find anyone. A single person was there and he told us my name is Shahbaz and my father&#8217;s name is Salmaan Taseer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Goraya described Taseer, who is in his early 30s, as being in &#8220;feeble&#8221; health.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, Inspector-General Ahsan Mehboob of Balochistan Police told Reuters: &#8220;Shahbaz was recovered safe and sound.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Intelligence agents and counterterrorism officers found Taseer after receiving information he was at a hotel in Kuchlak, Mehboob said, adding that no arrests were made in the raid.<\/p>\n<p>Last week Pakistan  hanged Mumtaz Qadri, the police bodyguard who shot Salman Taseer 28 times in Islamabad in January 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts described the execution as a crucial moment in Pakistan&#8217;s long fight against armed groups, saying it demonstrated the government&#8217;s resolve to uphold the rule of law rather than allow religious intolerance to flourish.<\/p>\n<p>But Qadri&#8217;s funeral brought up to 100,000 people on to the streets who lauded him as a hero, highlighting the country&#8217;s deep religious divide.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-10830 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/2011826101622883734_20.jpg\" alt=\"Shabaz Taseer was kidnapped in 2011 after his father Salman - who opposed Pakistan&#039;s blasphemy law - was killed \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Officials say Shahbaz Taseer, who was seized from Lahore in 2011, found in &#8220;feeble&#8221; health in a compound in Balochistan.} Pakistani officials say the kidnapped son of a top provincial official killed by his bodyguard has been found alive, just over a week after his father&#8217;s killer was hanged. 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