Five foreign hostages kidnapped in 2012 in Afghanistan recovered by Pakistan Army

[Vapnope]

they had bee n kidnapped in AF and brought to pak by who???

Same people who kidnapped a certain someone who goes by the name Kalboshan Jhadav from Iran and brought him inside the Pakistan, maybe?

 

[Hammad Arshad Qureshi]

Read the Article first Guys.

Yes and your point is? Americans have provided the Intel. But to physically locate the target place is done by ISI and also these type of intelligence led Operations are made by ISI.

 

[Thorough Pro]

This is where Pakistan sucks. After doing most of the work and actual recovery, it's US who is releasing statements. We should have kept quite about the rescue and only released the news after an official statement was issued from Presidency or PM house, official letters sent to their families and Canadian and US embassies.

Now it's US issuing statements as though they recovered them. We need to learn to capitalize such positive image building opportunities. That stupid Trump is making it sound like the y did the work and we only complied with their commands. WTF


Full story in first link


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ues-canadian-american-family-hostages-haqqani

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/...ased-after-5-years-of-being-held-hostage.html

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...hree-children-freed-in-pakistan-idUSKBN1CH1OP

 

[Ray-of-Hope]

Why doesn't this story make any sense to me? How did Haqqani discover them in Afghanistan? Why were they kidnapped? Why were they kept alive for so long? Why were they being moved place to place? Someone please explain this!

 

[hussain0216]

Why doesn't this story make any sense to me? How did Haqqani discover them in Afghanistan? Why were they kidnapped? Why were they kept alive for so long? Why were they being moved place to place? Someone please explain this!

hostages, bargaining chip

 

[-blitzkrieg-]

The Canadian man is ex-brother in law of Omar khadr as per sources.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Khadr

 

[The Eagle]

story samjh sa bahar, in US media outlet claim , they been rescued in Afghanistan by Afghan forces. And now totally different story....very strange..

I am sure the POTUS was debriefed in details....

https://twitter.com/x/status/918509213411938304

This is the difference, theyUSasks us to carry out rescue operation whereas feku people do bollwodd stunt and show item songs clip to their white masters

There are more things beneath what people sees on surface. Even if US forces wanted them Taliban to enter Pakistan deliberately and blame later, as the gloves are already off and PA do know the ambitions that too after such statements coming from D.C, it was bound to happen however, Intel Sharing helped a lot to act fast and do the needful without any damage or loss. The difference is prominent and way too high that one can come closer or head par. US said to do so and there were reasons that includes as what P.A is capable in such terrain, situation and type of enemy.

 

[maravan91]

US-Canadian couple, three children freed from terrorist custody in Kohat

PESHAWAR: Security forces, with the support of US intelligence, freed an American woman, her Canadian husband and their three children from terrorists’ captivity.

The foreigners were recovered from Nawe Kali, a remote area about 15 kilometres southwest of Kohat town, on Wednesday night following a joint operation by security forces and intelligence agencies, officials said.

The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement that the five foreign hostages had been recovered from terrorists during an operation based on intelligence shared by the United States. “US intelligence agencies had been tracking them and shared their shifting across to Pakistan on Oct 11, 2017, through the Kurram Agency border,” said the statement.
However, sources told Dawn on Thursday that the hostages had been recovered from a settled area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the buzzing unmanned air vehicles had been seen in the skies of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and KP for the past 10 days.
The officials said that one of the kidnappers had been taken into custody while his two accomplices fled after an exchange of fire with the security forces.

They said the vehicle carrying the hostages was intercepted near Kohat amid surveillance of drones in the area.

“One of the hostage-takers was injured in the exchange of fire near the town of Kohat,” said an official on condition of anonymity as he was not authorised to talk to the media. The ISPR blamed a “terrorist outfit” for kidnapping, but did not name it in its statement. However, US intelligence officials believed that the Haqqani network was behind it.

Residents in Kohat and adjacent tribal areas said drones had been seen flying over the areas for the past 10 days. They were also flying over Hangu district and Kurram and North Waziristan agencies, according to locals.

This was the deepest ever activity of drones inside Pakistani territory.

Media reported that the drones had appeared in the sky of Kohat on Wednesday that created panic among the residents. Following the movement of drones, Pakistan Air Force planes and helicopter gunships appeared to intercept ‘foreign objects’.

The officials said the vehicle carrying the hostages had entered through the Kurram tribal region and then moved to Kohat district. It was intercepted near Nawe Kali.

Kohat and adjacent districts house a large number of refugees and unregistered Afghan nationals.

“The success [of the operation] underscores the importance of timely intelligence sharing and Pakistan’s continued commitment towards fighting this menace [of terrorism] through cooperation between two forces against a common enemy,” the ISPR statement said.

“The hostages were recovered through an intelligence-based operation by Pakistani troops,” it said, adding that the foreigners had been captured by terrorists in Afghanistan in 2012 and kept as hostages there.

The ISPR said the operation had been conducted by the army “based on actionable intelligence from US authorities”.

A video of the kidnapped couple was also released last year.

Published in Dawn, October 13th, 2017

https://www.dawn.com/news/1363483/u...hildren-freed-from-terrorist-custody-in-kohat

 

[El Sidd]

how many time this news will get posted? these people are like a celebrity now

 

[maravan91]

https://twitter.com/x/status/918694034763157505

Yesterday news,
Fear grips people as 4 drones fly over Kohat

https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/236377-Fear-grips-people-as-4-drones-fly-over-Kohat

 

[RoadRunner401]

“US intelligence agencies had been tracking them and shared their shifting across to Pakistan on Oct 11, 2017, through the Kurram Agency border,” said the statement.

I wonder why Americans and Afghan didn't liberate them in Afghanistan the Area they control

 

[maravan91]

I wonder why Americans and Afghan didn't liberate them in Afghanistan the Area they control

According to above report they r recovered from kohat . Which is quite a distance from Afghanistan border

https://twitter.com/x/status/918102440460869633

https://twitter.com/x/status/918675491829272577

 

[Pakistan92]

 

[war&peace]

how many time this news will get posted? these people are like a celebrity now

I wish our state take our its own citizen like this too... What about thousands of children kidnapped from Lahore and other cities of Punjab... where are they? and what happened to the follow up on the news?...was it a hoax?

 

[The Eagle]

US-Canadian couple, three children freed from terrorist custody in Kohat

PESHAWAR: Security forces, with the support of US intelligence, freed an American woman, her Canadian husband and their three children from terrorists’ captivity.

The foreigners were recovered from Nawe Kali, a remote area about 15 kilometres southwest of Kohat town, on Wednesday night following a joint operation by security forces and intelligence agencies, officials said.

The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement that the five foreign hostages had been recovered from terrorists during an operation based on intelligence shared by the United States. “US intelligence agencies had been tracking them and shared their shifting across to Pakistan on Oct 11, 2017, through the Kurram Agency border,” said the statement.
However, sources told Dawn on Thursday that the hostages had been recovered from a settled area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the buzzing unmanned air vehicles had been seen in the skies of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and KP for the past 10 days.
The officials said that one of the kidnappers had been taken into custody while his two accomplices fled after an exchange of fire with the security forces.

They said the vehicle carrying the hostages was intercepted near Kohat amid surveillance of drones in the area.

“One of the hostage-takers was injured in the exchange of fire near the town of Kohat,” said an official on condition of anonymity as he was not authorised to talk to the media. The ISPR blamed a “terrorist outfit” for kidnapping, but did not name it in its statement. However, US intelligence officials believed that the Haqqani network was behind it.

Residents in Kohat and adjacent tribal areas said drones had been seen flying over the areas for the past 10 days. They were also flying over Hangu district and Kurram and North Waziristan agencies, according to locals.

This was the deepest ever activity of drones inside Pakistani territory.

Media reported that the drones had appeared in the sky of Kohat on Wednesday that created panic among the residents. Following the movement of drones, Pakistan Air Force planes and helicopter gunships appeared to intercept ‘foreign objects’.

The officials said the vehicle carrying the hostages had entered through the Kurram tribal region and then moved to Kohat district. It was intercepted near Nawe Kali.

Kohat and adjacent districts house a large number of refugees and unregistered Afghan nationals.

“The success [of the operation] underscores the importance of timely intelligence sharing and Pakistan’s continued commitment towards fighting this menace [of terrorism] through cooperation between two forces against a common enemy,” the ISPR statement said.

“The hostages were recovered through an intelligence-based operation by Pakistani troops,” it said, adding that the foreigners had been captured by terrorists in Afghanistan in 2012 and kept as hostages there.

The ISPR said the operation had been conducted by the army “based on actionable intelligence from US authorities”.

A video of the kidnapped couple was also released last year.

Published in Dawn, October 13th, 2017

https://www.dawn.com/news/1363483/u...hildren-freed-from-terrorist-custody-in-kohat

There was no need to create another thread in hurry while over-sighting the existing one on the same subject.