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Malik Muhammad Iqbal shot dead in Rawalpindi after a flight to testify against their former captors

A British man who was kidnapped in Pakistan and only released when his family paid a ransom of £ 15,000, was killed after his return to the country to testify against their former captors.

Malik Muhammad Iqbal, 55, was shot dead by three masked men on Friday, which broke into the family home in Rawalpindi, where he was staying, one year after kidnapping ordeal ended .

Iqbal, a father of four children of Bradford, had agreed to return to Pakistan for the four-week trial of the men seized him, apparently aware that he might re-testify. According to the Pakistani media, Iqbal was shot while staying at the home of a relative in Rawalpindi Chakri road and died en route to hospital.

During his abduction last year, Iqbal was blindfolded, shackled and starved for almost three weeks before his family paid a ransom for his release.

Speaking to

Bradford Telegraph & Argus

as the news of the death broke, a friend and former adviser Riaz Ahmed said: "It was a strong man and provocative, and it is a tragedy for his family and for all.

Ahmed said. "He was well aware of the potential risk to himself, but he was very strong mind and sought justice, to be held was rebellious, he knew there would be problems, but high principles could not ignore.

"Before leaving, he said that" justice must be done to prevent this from happening to someone else. "

After being released last year, Iqbal described how he was kidnapped while visiting his family in Rawalpindi and chained in a shed on a farm for 20 days, surviving on tea and occasional biscuits always their captors.
Iqbal, who was from Kenya, but moved to Bradford in 1968, was abducted on September 4 last year, two days before he had planned to return home after giving one family friend a lift in an area near the Islamabad airport. When they reached their destination, said Iqbal was ambushed by five men and a gun put to his head. During treatment, a kidnapper remained with him at all times. His family, local farmers were forced to sell some of their cattle to collect the ransom money.

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