Kidnapped Teenager Recovered from Karachi

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TOBA TEK SINGH: The Kotwali police claimed to have safely recovered a 15-year-old boy, who was kidnapped from Jhang, from Karachi in a raid.

A police official said Hussain Javed (15) left home due to a minor domestic dispute and went to his friends. However, later, the official claimed the same friends took the boy hostage and shifted him to Karachi. The alleged kidnappers called the victim’s father and demanded a huge sum of money for his freedom.

The official claimed that, by using modern technology and available resources, the whereabouts of the abductee were found and the boy was recovered in a successful raid. He said that during the raid, the accused persons fled the scene and operations were underway to arrest them.

Published in Dawn, November 13th, 2025.

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