No headway in AMI’s ex-head kidnapping bid case nine months on

ABBOTTABAD: The police have failed to arrest anyone involved in the kidnapping bid of Prof Dr Nisar Khan, former chief executive of the Ayub Medical Institution despite the passage of nine months.
The pulmonologist, who was also the chief executive of Ayub Medical Complex, escaped a kidnapping attempt in Charsadda in August 2014 when he was travelling with his technician Stephen Shahid from Nowshera to Peshawar. They were intercepted by men in three cars near Samad Qilla. When Dr Nisar Khan resisted the attempt, the assailants shot dead Stephen Shahid.
The People’s Doctors Forum (PDF) has expressed deep concern over the issue and asked Chief Minister Pervez Khattak and Inspector General Police, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Nasir Durani to take appropriate steps to arrest the culprits.
Dr Daud Iqbal, a spokesman of PDF, said the doctors’ community was concerned about the threats to doctors in particular and the law and order situation in the province in general. He claimed a number of doctors had shifted to other parts of the country due to insecurity in the province. He appealed to the government to provide foolproof security to the doctors. He added that Dr Nisar Khan, who happened to be the provincial president of PDF, has been feeling insecure.