At least 19 Pakistanis, including eight women of Sargodha, managed to flee from a torture cell located in a fort of Herat in Afghanistan and they successfully reached their homes. Mst Kalsoom (35), one of the prisoners, said on Sunday that an Afghan agent took a troupe of eight artistes to Afghanistan to perform disco dance at a function of foreigners in October.
Where they performed the disco dance and the participants, mostly foreigners, highly appreciated their performance.
Just before leaving Heart for Peshawar, she said, a police party raided the site and arrested them. However, the police did not arrest the locals and foreigners.
She said the police kept them in a torture cell of Islam Fort of Herat without producing them before any magistrate. Last week in charge of the torture cell and his colleagues asked them to perform the dance in the fort.
The in charge of the cell and his colleagues took the liquor excessively. "When they became unconscious, we stole the keys of the cell and got released other Pakistanis.
Later, they entered the territory of Iran where security forces caught them. However, after Investigation, they let them go back to Pakistan.
Kalsoom said that their troupe consists of Arifa (26), Maqsooda (20), Veena Bibi (29), Taj Bibi (27), Munawarra Bibi (29), Shazia Bibi (25), Mst.Kalsoom (35) and Rabia (22). Ghulam Dastgir, son of Jehangir (Lahore), Muhammad Ayyaz, son of Fayyaz, Jehangira (Swabi), Miran Shah, son of Wahid Shah (Kirpa Orakzai), Yaqub Kazmi, son of Ayub Kazmi, (Gulshan-i-Iqbal, Karachi), Syed Arif Shah, son of Syed Abrar Shah (Hyderabad), Muhammad Irshad, son of Afridi Khan, Khalil-ur-Rehman, son of Ghani-ur-Rehman (Bajaur), Shah Wali, son of Mir Wali (Mehmund Agency), Sarfraz, son of Abdul Hannan (Swabi), Akbar Laleka, son of Nasrullah Laleka (Urdu Bazar Lahore) were the other Pakistanis who reached their respective homes.