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Senior GB Minister Returned After Successful Negotiations With Kidnappers.

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Gilgit-Baltistan’s senior provincial minister Col (retd) Obaidullah Baig was released hours after he was abducted by local militants on Friday evening.

Government sources confirmed on Saturday that Obaidullah was abducted by fighters of a local militant group near Babusar Top.

He was later released after an eight-hour-long negotiation between the militants and the government.

Local sources said that the government also assured the local militant commander that they would implement the agreement made with them.

Colonel Obaidullah has reached his home.

The militant group had blocked the main arteries connecting Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan to press for their demands. Meanwhile, Baig was going back to Gilgit along with his son when he got stuck in the traffic due to the protest.

When the protesters learned that he was a senior minister in the GB government, they detained him and refused to release him until their demands were met.

Local militants demanded the release of their jailed compatriots and the return of missing persons.

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