LAHORE – A senior minister of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government in Punjab has categorically rejected the claims of his son’s involvement in the abduction of two policemen in the provincial capital earlier this week.
Earlier, it was reported that two cops were kidnapped by unidentified individuals after they tried to stop a car with a girl and a boy – said to be Punjab Housing Minister Mehmoodur Rasheed’s son – in Ghalib Market area of Lahore on Wednesday.
According to the first information report (FIR), after the vehicle was pulled up, the girl had called her friends who arrived at the site in two vehicles and abducted the cops. The pair fled the scene in the car that is, according to the police, belonged to the minister’s son.
In a presser on Thursday, the minister termed as ‘fabricated’ the reports and maintained that his son reached at the spot when he received a call from his friend. “I have asked my son to present himself to the police station,” he told the reporters in Lahore.
Rasheed added that he will ‘fully cooperate’ with the police and will resign from the post if his son found involved in the kidnapping.
Five people, including the girl, have been booked by the police. Further investigation was underway.
