The son of former Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani was kidnapped at gunpoint during an election rally.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan – A Taliban-linked militant group claimed responsibility Tuesday for the May 9 kidnapping of the son of ex-Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani.
The Al-Mansoorian Brigade said it was still holding Ali Haider Gilani, who was grabbed at gunpoint at a political rally in Punjab province.
“He is with us,” brigade spokesman Abu Yazeed Mansoor told NBC News, adding that Gilani was “safe and sound.”
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Gilani, who was a member of his father’s liberal PPP party, had been running for a seat in the Punjab provincial assembly.
His father served four years as Prime Minister of Pakistan but was ousted in June 2012 as part of a Supreme Court ruling that disqualified him from office after he refused to re-open corruption charges against then-President Asif Ali Zardari.
The Taliban has previously said it would disrupt the activities of “secular” parties in Pakistan.
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