Daughter of Afghan envoy to Pakistan ‘kidnapped and tortured’

Afghanistan government says Silsila Alikhil was kidnapped in Islamabad, Pakistan by unknown assailants.

The daughter of Afghanistan’s ambassador to Pakistan was abducted and tortured for several hours by unknown assailants, the Afghan government has said. Silsila Alikhil, the daughter of Ambassador Najib Alikhil, was on her way home on Friday when she was kidnapped and “severely tortured”, the Afghan foreign ministry said in a statement on Saturday, without giving more details of the abduction in Islamabad. “After being released from the kidnappers’ captivity, Ms Alikhil is under medical care at the hospital,” the statement added, urging an investigation and protection for Afghan diplomats.