MANILA, Philippines - Members of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) on Wednesday night turned over a Pakistani national to local authorities after escaping from his kidnappers in Datu Odin Sinsuat town in Maguindan province.
Cotabato City Mayor Muslimin Sema, the current chairman of the MNLF, said he received a report that Pakistani national Waseem Sajjad Kahan came to Camp Ibrahim in Barangay Dalican claiming that he had just escaped from his kidnappers.
Sema said MNLF members at Camp Ibrahim asked for his help because they could not understand Kahan's language. He said that the Pakistani national tried to speak with the MNLF members in English.
Sema rushed to the MNLF camp to fetch the Pakistani national's presence and turned him over to the authorities on Wednesday night.
The mayor said that according to Kahan, he had just collected money from debtors at the Dalican public market and was already on his way to Cotabato City on board a motorcycle when he was flagged down and snatched by unidentified gunmen.
Sema said that according to Kahan, the kidnappers asked him to tell his relatives in Sultan Kudarat town to produce P6 million for his release.
He said that according to the Pakistani national, he told his kidnappers that he would not be able to produce P6 million, and instead gave the gunmen the cash he was carrying amounting to at least P25,000.
The kidnappers, however, still refused to release the Pakistani national, the local chief executive said.
He said Kahan was able to slip out of the kidnappers' lair and ran to Camp Ibrahim.
Sema said the police have started an investigation to identify the Pakistani national's kidnappers.
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