{"id":35243,"date":"2017-12-06T17:45:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T12:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=35243"},"modified":"2017-12-06T17:45:15","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T12:45:15","slug":"army-recovers-pakistani-engineer-kidnapped-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=35243","title":{"rendered":"Army recovers Pakistani engineer kidnapped in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islamabad, Dec. 6 (TNS):<\/strong> The Pakistan Army on Wednesday recovered a Pakistani engineer who had been kidnapped in Afghanistan earlier this year, local media quoting officials reported.<\/p>\n<p>Malik Faiz Ahmed, a resident of Rawalpindi, had been abducted in Afghanistan on August 21. The engineer had been working on the Torkham-Jalalabad road project in Afghanistan when he was abducted.<\/p>\n<p>He returned home after 105 days, his son confirmed to local media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My father has returned in good health,&#8221; Farhan Malik said as he thanked the army and the media for their efforts.<\/p>\n<p>According to Farhan, his father had first been brought to Peshawar, where he was received by his family. They later brought him home.<\/p>\n<p>According to a plea for help by the engineer&#8217;s son issued soon after the kidnapping, Ahmed had been working with a construction company overseen by the Frontier Works Organization when he was picked up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is said that the militants are demanding their people [held] in [Pakistani security agencies&#8217;] custody in exchange,&#8221; the poster read. &#8220;No solid information until now,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear under what terms and circumstances his release was secured.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Dec. 6 (TNS): The Pakistan Army on Wednesday recovered a Pakistani engineer who had been kidnapped in Afghanistan earlier this year, local media quoting officials reported. Malik Faiz Ahmed, a resident of Rawalpindi, had been abducted in Afghanistan on August 21. The engineer had been working on the Torkham-Jalalabad road project in Afghanistan when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589],"class_list":["post-35243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","tag-islamabad","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35245,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35243\/revisions\/35245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}