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The jirga head, Jamiat Ulema-a-Islam (JUI-F) Bajaur General Secretary Maulana Abdul Rashid, who is also a senator, was kidnapped on Thursday with his driver and guard from the Loway Sum area while returning home after attending an election campaign event of Mufti Shabir Ahmed, a candidate from NA-46.
They were released unconditionally. The senator did not comment on the identities of his kidnappers or what they had wanted.
Several days earlier, former Member of the National Assembly Maulana Ghulam Muhammad Sadiq, who is contesting elections on NA-36 from Mohmand Agency, was also kidnapped and later released by unknown people on December 24.
Sadiq said his kidnappers shifted him to AfghanistanÂ’s Kunar province and suspected that he was a close ally of President Pervez Musharraf, believing that he had voted for Musharraf in the presidential elections.