Afghanistan recalls all diplomatic staff over alleged kidnapping of envoy's daughter

Afghanistan recalls all diplomatic staff over alleged kidnapping of envoy's daughter

KABUL (Dunya News) – Afghanistan on Sunday said it was recalling its ambassador to Islamabad and other senior diplomats over the alleged kidnapping of top envoy s daughter in Islamabad.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has recalled all diplomatic staff in Pakistan following the alleged abduction of Silsila Alikhil, the daughter of Afghan Ambassador Najibullah Alikhel, citing security concerns.

Earlier addressing a press conference today, Federal Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed had said that suspects in kidnapping of Afghanistan ambassador’s daughter will be arrested in a day or two.

The interior minister said that the Afghan ambassador’s daughter had left her home on foot and she took a taxi to Khadda Market for shopping. From Khadda Market, the envoy’s daughter took another taxi to Rawalpindi, he disclosed.

Sheikh Rasheed had said that the only gap in the investigation is how she able to arrive at Daman-e-Koh from Rawalpindi.

Interior Minister accused India of playing up the kidnapping of the ambassador’s daughter to malign Pakistan.

"We will present the entire, true picture in front of the world," he said, adding that Pakistan’s importance in the region has shot up due to PM Khan’s popular foreign policy moves.

He reiterated that Pakistan will not allow its soil to be used against Afghanistan and the former expects the same from latter.

It merits mention that a case of alleged kidnapping of Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan Najibullah Alikhel’s daughter has been registered at Kohsar Police Station in Islamabad today (Sunday).

In a statement, the victim girl told that she took a taxi on her way back from a shopping mall when a