Hopes rise for boy kidnapped in Pakistan as police question suspects

Published: 5:53AM GMT 05 March 2010

Sahil Saeed Photo: Manchester Evening News

Sahil Saeed, elderly five, was snatched from his grandmother"s residence in Pakistan"s Jehlum city overnight on Wednesday after robbers hold the family at gunpoint for multiform hours.

The robbers additionally took a small domicile security and demanded a �100,000 ransom to lapse the child.

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The box is between a mountainous series of kidnappings for ransom in Pakistan, where Taliban-led militancy and a struggling economy have fueled crime. Most victims are Pakistani nationals.

Police questioner Raja Tahir Bashir pronounced that officers were operative on a small leads.

"God willing, we will redeem the child really soon," he said, disappearing to give serve details. "We are you do whatever is possible."

Bashir pronounced mixed suspects were being questioned.

They are thought to embody a man described as a "prime suspect" in the kidnapping, the motorist of a cab that came to collect up the family.

British officials have been in hold with the boy"s parents, who had been scheduled to lapse from their legal holiday to Britain on Thursday.

The boy"s father, Raja Naqqash Saeed, pronounced he was tortured by men brandishing guns and a hand-grenade.

Mr Saeed said: "They took me in to the apart room and they tortured me. They pronounced "we will take your son and you will have to compensate �100,000"."

Criminal gangs are suspected in most kidnappings for ransom in Pakistan, but the Taliban and alternative belligerent groups are thought to consequence a cut of the money. The sums demanded can run in to the millions of dollars, though the captors mostly solve for less.

The British boy"s mom done an romantic televised interest for his protected return.

"I only wish my son behind safe," Akila Naqqash told Sky News from her home in Oldham, Greater Manchester.

"We have got no thought because we were targeted - we don"t have any money. Hes such a honeyed small boy. Hes a bubbly child and gets on with his clergyman and the alternative children. All I can do is urge for him. Just greatfully move him back, what has he done?"