Home sweet home for Gilani

May 11, 2016 19:05

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari @BBhuttoZardari has reason to cheer. Bilawal tweets this picture and writes, "Miracles do happen. Welcome home @haidergilani."

Ali Haider Gilani, the son of Pakistans former prime minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, was today flown from Kabul to Lahore, a day after he was rescued by US and Afghan forces from the clutches of Taliban militants who had held him hostage for three years.

Pakistan said on Tuesday that American and Afghan security forces had recovered Haider from Taliban militants in a joint special operation in Afghanistans Ghazni province after he was kidnapped from an election rally on May 9, 2013.

The Pakistan Foreign Office said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif dispatched a special plane to bring Haider from Kabul.

Local media reported that the plane had landed at the Lahore airport where his family members and close relatives were present to receive him.

Pic: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari with Ali Haider Gilani (right) and Gilani's twin Ali Qasim Gilani.

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