Indian intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) has abducted former Lt. Col Muhammad Habib Zahir.
According to intelligence and Foreign Office sources suspected an enemy intelligence agency’s involvement in the abduction.
Lt Col (retd) Zahir went missing on April 06 from Nepal where he had travelled to after being lured with a job offer.
A First Information Report (FIR) registered by his son, Saad Habib, says that Zahir was received by a man named Javaid Ansari at the airport in Kathmandu on April 6.
Lt Col (retd) Zahir had retired from Pakistan Army in 2014. During his service, Zahir also worked with United Nation’s peace mission for two years. Zahir then joined a Pakistani food company and was currently looking for other job offers.
He was contacted by a man named Mark Thompson who offered him a job which had been listed on the website stratsolutions.biz. Thompson had called Zahir for an interview to Nepal.
On Thursday during the weekly briefing, Foreign Office spokesman Nafees Zakaria expressed fear that the former Army officer might have been abducted by an enemy intelligence agency.
“We have brought Lt. Col (r) Zahir’s case to the Nepali government’s attention,” Zakaria said. “The Indian prime minister admitted that the country was involved in dividing Pakistan in 1971.”
