Owais Ali Shah recovered in operation at Tank: DG ISPR

ISLAMABAD: Kidnapped son of Sindh High Court Judge Sajjad Ali Shah's son Owais Ali Shah has been recovered, it emerged on Tuesday.

The inter-service public relations in a tweet confirmed that Owais Ali Shah had been recovered. DG ISPR Gen Asim Bajwa said that Owais had been recovered from Tank, an area near South Waziristan where Pakistan's security forces have battled local and foreign militants.

Awais Shah son of Sind Chief Justice recovered through an IBO from custody of terrorists from near Tank,3 terrorists killed.-1/2

? Gen Asim Bajwa (@AsimBajwaISPR) July 18, 2016

He added that an operation in the area was conducted on intelligence reports. In the operation three terrorists were gunned down.

Owais Ali Shah is safe in the custody of security forces. He will be transferred to Karachi today. Security outside Sajjad Ali Shah's house has been beefed up. Policemen are guarding the street.

Sources said that terrorists had planned to transfer Owais Ali Shah to Afghanistan. Security forces stopped a blue car during snap checking when terrorists inside opened fire. In the shootout which followed three terrorists were gunned down. The source added that Owais Ali Shah was recovered in the car wearing a 'shuttlecock burqa'.

The Army Chief General Raheel Shareef congratulated security and intelligence agencies over the successful operation.

Owais Ali Shah was kidnapped from a super market in Clifton on June 21 by men in plainclothes.

The country has seen high profile kidnapping of Shahbaz Taseer, son of former Punjab governor late Salman Taseer, and Ali Haider Gilani, son of former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani before the abduction of Awais Shah over the last fiver years.

Taseer was held in captivity for four and a half years before being recovered from Kuchlak, Balochistan in March this year, while Gilani was recovered after three years during an operation jointly carried out by US and Afghan forces in Ghazni district of Afghanistan in May.