Parents of a city-based engineer, who went missing in Pakistan in 2012, on Saturday said they hope that the Indian Government will secure the release of their son who is in Pakistan Army custody and facing a trial in military courts in the neighbouring country.

Nehal Hamid Ansari went to Pakistan via Afghanistan to meet a girl he had befriended on the Internet and had been untraceable since then. His mother Fauzia and father Hamid Ansari said they lost touch with him during his stay in Afghanistan in late 2012.