Former PM’s son Ali Haider Gilani returns home after three years in captivity while former prime minister of Pakistan was busy here in Islamabad high court for grant of protective bail in seven different cases.

 

By. Asghar Ali Mubarak

Former PM’s son Ali Haider Gilani returns home after three years in captivity while former prime minister of Pakistan was busy here in Islamabad high court for grant of protective bail in seven different cases. Emotional scenes were witnessed at Islamabad when a number of friends of former prime minister was congratulates by the public at Islamabad high court Islamabad. Jubilant former prime minister of Pakistan looks remain busy to received messages on phone by party leaders.  At this accession PPPP leader ship including Niaz A. Naik, Zamurd Khan, Raja Imran Ashraf ,Adnan A. khawaja and others were also present.

Ali Haider reached direct Lahore in a special aircraft provided by federal government. He was accompanied by his brother Qasim Gilani.

Emotional scenes were witnessed when Ali Haider Gilani met his family at the Lahore Airport after three long years in captivity. His mother, wife, son and brothers are there to receive him at the VIP lounge of the Allama Iqbal Airport. But his father former prime minister of Pakistan was busy here in Islamabad high court for grant of protective bail in seven different cases. Ali Haider Gilani embraces his son Ali Haider lifted his six-year-old son in his arms as he met his family. His mother cried tears of joy.

Ali Haider was handed over to Pakistan by Afghan officials on Wednesday. The Afghan defense minister handed over Ali Haider to the Pakistan ambassador in Kabul Abrar Hussain at 10 am, the Pakistan foreign office said. They were taken to the Airport by a helicopter for onward travel to Lahore.

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Ali Haider was recovered in a joint operation by Afghan and US forces in Ghazni on Tuesday, three years after he was kidnapped from a pre-election rally in Multan.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s office said Afghan security forces defeated an Al Qaeda cell in a joint operation with international forces, and suggested that the discovery of Gilani may have been accidental, media reported.

“During this anti-insurgency operation, Ali Haider Gilani…was identified at the site of the operation, and was freed from terrorists,” a spokesperson said.

The news was first broken by Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari in a tweet.

Former PM Yousuf Raza disclosed in Islamabad while talking to the daily mail  ‘’I received a call from Afghanistan from Pakistani ambassador’’  I was on his way to a Pakistan People’s Party rally at Bagh Azad Kashmir on Tuesday when he received a phone call from the foreign office. He then talked to his son. “I talked to my son while I was on my way,” said Gilani,.