By IANS,
Islamabad : A Parsi businesswoman has been kidnapped in Pakistan’s Quetta city, about 10 years after her politician-husband went missing after also being abducted.
Nilofar Abadan, wife of former provincial minister Faridoon Abadan, was seized by armed men Tuesday, Dawn newspaper reported Wednesday.
Faridoon was kidnapped over 10 years back and remains untraced. Nilofar had been looking after the family business since then.
She was going to the family-owned Quetta Distillery when she was whisked away.
Hamid Shakeel, a senior police official, said armed men intercepted her car at a speedbreaker. The car was later found abandoned.
The official it was the first kidnapping of a businesswoman in Quetta, capital of Balochistan province.
Balochistan Minister for Minorities Affairs Basant Lal Gulshan said last month that minority communities in the province felt insecure.
He said Hindus were still awaiting the safe return of their religious leader Lakki Chand Garji when a Hindu trader was killed in a kidnapping attempt in Quetta Feb 6.
Three Hindu traders have been killed during attempted kidnappings in and around Quetta in the past three years.
Gulshan said this had forced minority communities to move to safer places.
Ram Singh Sodho, elected to the Sindh assembly in 2008 on a Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) ticket from a seat reserved for minorities, fled to India and sent in his resignation to the assembly speaker.