Tag: counter-terrorism mission in eastern Afghanistan

US and Afghan forces free kidnapped son of ex-Pakistan PM

KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — US and Afghan forces freed the kidnapped son of a former Pakistani prime minister during a counter-terrorism mission in eastern Afghanistan, NATO said Tuesday, three years after he was kidnapped in a hail of bullets. Ali Haider Gilani, son of Yousaf Raza Gilani, was rescued in the Giyan district of Paktika province “by US Special Operations Forces and Afghan commandos in a partnered raid,” NATO said in the statement from Kabul. […]