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RSS FeedsCanadian Joshua Boyle and family leave Pakistan after five-year kidnapping nightmare
(The Star Toronto Raptors)

 
 

13 october 2017 16:35:38

 
Canadian Joshua Boyle and family leave Pakistan after five-year kidnapping nightmare
(The Star Toronto Raptors)
 


SMITHS FALLS, ONT.—After five years of communicating with his family only through hostage videos and carefully written letters, Joshua Boyle spoke freely to his parents from a guest house in Pakistan.They talked of the passports his young family needed, the flights they could take and their long-awaited reunion. The couple and their children flew out of Pakistan with Canadian officials on a commercial flight early Friday. “My family is obviously psychologically and physically shattered by the betrayals and the criminality of what has happened over the past five years,” Boyle told the Star during a call from Islamabad to his parents, Patrick and Linda. It was a moment of calm for the Boyles — being able to hear their son’s voice, to listen to him laugh and at one point nearly cry — in what had been an emotional day marked by relief, anxiety and anticipation. “But we’re looking forward to a new lease on life, to use an overused idiom, and restarting and being able to build a sanctuary for our children and our family in North America,” Boyle told us as we sat listening around the dining room table.Then he added, with a laugh: “I have discovered there is little that cannot be overcome by enough Sufi patience, Irish irreverence and Canadian sanctimony.” Boyle, 34, his American wife, Caitlan Coleman, 31, and their children were freed Wednesday after a dramatic rescue by the Pakistani Army, based on intelligence provided by the U.S. Boyle told his parents in a phone call earlier Thursday that they had been in the trunk of the kidnappers’ car during the rescue and the Pakistani forces had shot dead five of the captors. He later told the Star that some of the kidnappers had escaped and he wanted to ensure they were caught and charged for their crimes.Read more: What we know about the rescue of Canadian Joshua Boyle, his wife and their three children in PakistanKidnapped Canadian-American family freed ...


 
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