Re: 5 year old boy abducted for ransom- Jhelum
Allah iss bachay ko saat khairyat aur jald apney waaldein key paas bhejey, as far AP aap key dard ko mehsoos to nahi kar sakta lekin samajh zaroor sakta hoon, Allah aapko sabr dey, Aameen :k:
Re: 5 year old boy abducted for ransom- Jhelum
A statement by police in Media
I don't believe that they have any confirmation but I prey it may be correct by grace of God.
Kidnapped British boy safe: police
JEHLUM: A five-year-old British boy kidnapped in Pakistan nearly a week ago has been found to be alive and police are making headway in the investigation, a police official said on Tuesday. Sahil Saeed, who is of Pakistani origin, was abducted from his grandmother’s house last Thursday. “The child is safe. We have made some progress and hopefully, we’ll sort out this case soon,” Jehlum SP Khalid Mehmood said. Police have said the Taliban use ransoms from kidnappings to fund their insurgency against the US-backed government. But no signs have emerged which show that the abduction of the boy is linked to terrorists. reuters
Re: 5 year old boy abducted for ransom- Jhelum
The media attention this case is getting, there is a high chance that one innocent soul will be killed and the parents will only find the body now.
Media should be taken out of the proportion so that the Police can work and the kidnappers are isolated, else the kidnappers are getting all the information from outside through the media itself.
I really pray to ALLAH that the boy returns safe and the kidnappers and others involved are caught and prosecuted as soon as possible.
The father of a five-year-old British boy kidnapped in Pakistan has returned home, against the wishes of the country’s police, the BBC has learned.
Sahil Saeed, from Oldham, Greater Manchester, was seized by an armed gang while staying with relatives last week.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik told the BBC that police had wanted the boy’s father Raja Saeed to stay as a witness.
Police have not commented on Mr Saeed’s departure. He has not been named as a suspect and so is free to travel.
Mr Malik had previously said someone “very close to the family” had taken Sahil and that police were closing in on the kidnappers.
This was indicated by the way the abductors got into the house and their “conduct… during that whole operation”, he said.Source
There are some non-confirm reports that the father is negotiating with the kidnappers and he may have reached UK on their demand or to arrange money for them. It is also possible that there may be some influential person mediating and there may be some issues to be settled anyway however there is a hope of safety of the child.
That is little good at the moment.
Re: 5 year old boy abducted for ransom- Jhelum
Bou has been recovered and it seem money was not only reason for kidnap as boys father was receiving threats.
Re: 5 year old boy abducted for ransom- Jhelum
The boy’s father took the mothers passport along with him to Jhelum so that she wouldnt come after them… he had a fight with her before leaving the UK … he does sound like a fishy character to me … plus he hasnt even come back home to Oldham.. his wife didnt even know he was back in the UK ..
Father of kidnapped boy Sahil Saeed denies fleeing Britain after family row | Mail Online
Re: 5 year old boy abducted for ransom- Jhelum
Kidnapped child Sahil rescued from Sialkot: minister
Kidnapped child Sahil rescued from Sialkot: minister
Updated at: 1140 PST, Thursday, March 11, 2010
SIALKOT: The UK-based child Sahil, kidnapped from Jehlum, has been rescued from Sialkot, meanwhile, police have also arrested two persons including a woman over kidnapping charges, Geo news quoted Punjab Law Minister as saying.
According to media reports, the arrested person, allegedly involved in abduction of child, had been issuing several threats to Sahil’s family before committing kidnapping.
Those arrested have been moved to undefined location for investigation, meanwhile, the child has been sent to UK with his father, he said.
Child’s close relatives were reportedly involved in abduction, according to preliminary reports.
It may be mentioned the child was abducted 7 days ago during a robbery at his house in Jehlum.
Re: 5 year old boy abducted for ransom- Jhelum
It seems that , thats still not a confirmed news :
Re: 5 year old boy abducted for ransom- Jhelum
BBC just confirmed the child has not been found and continues to remain missing :(
Honestly they both sound a bit fishy to me, what kinda mother sits waiting in another country while her 5 yr old sons missing in another country.
BBC just confirmed the child has not been found and continues to remain missing :(
The BBC have just confirmed that the boy has yet not been released...i really don't know what is going on.
Re: 5 year old boy abducted for ransom- Jhelum
Actually family prefers the safety of the child so they can not act upon advice of police.
Till now the latest from Honorable Sanaullah.
Abducted child recovered; flown to UK: Rana Sanaullah http://www.app.com.pk/en_/images/M_images/pdf_button.png http://www.app.com.pk/en_/images/M_images/printButton.png http://www.app.com.pk/en_/images/M_images/emailButton.png ISLAMABAD, Mar 11 (APP): The UK-based child abducted from Jhelum some seven days ago has been recovered from Sialkot the other day.Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah, while talking to a private news channel, confirmed that the child Sahil was recovered the other day, and added that he has flown to England along with his father.
Sanaullah told the media that close relatives were involved in the kidnapping, adding that child’s recovery was deliberately kept in secret till today.
The minor namely Sahil has been kidnapped during a dacoity bid a week ago from Jhelum.
The kidnappers demanded heavy ransom for return of the child.
if this is a family row then victim is pakistan.
if this is a family row then victim is pakistan.
You are right. ,
Very bad for Pakistan,We are already spoiled.
Honestly they both sound a bit fishy to me, what kinda mother sits waiting in another country while her 5 yr old sons missing in another country.
That's what I was telling my dad the other day, u'd think she would be on the first flight to Pakistan.. even without her original passport am sure there'd be some emergency procedures she could have gone thru to enable her to fly..
I cannot reconcile the two statements. :S
Re: 5 year old boy abducted for ransom- Jhelum
I'm think the police and the politicians are an utter disgrace. Gettin 2 different boys mixed up and saying hes been 'found alive', when it wasnt even him. Nearly everybody I've met, is talking about how the police keep saying he will be found in a few hours, blah blah blah, yet nothing has happened.
all talk and no action.
First was my view and second was statement of Honorable Rana Sanaullah the law minister of Punjab. So naturally those are different.
This is the latest from BBC
Mystery of the missing father of kidnapped boy
A simple abduction case has been enveloped by a web of intrigue.
By Jerome Taylor and Omar Waraich
*Friday, 12 March 2010*
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At first it seemed like a simple case of abduction: a five-year-old British boy snatched by masked gunmen in Pakistan on the last day of a two-week holiday with his father.
A £100,000 ransom demand for his safe return had been issued and, as the boy’s father and police frantically searched the Punjab, a distraught mother made a desperate appeal from her home in Oldham to be reunited with her child.
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But since Sahil Saeed was bundled from his grandmother’s house in the Pakistani city of Jhelum on 4 March, the story has become more complicated by the day.
First there were reports that the five-year-old had been found safe and well in Sialkot, a bustling city at the foot of the Himalayas some 50 miles east of Jhelum. But they were false. A kidnapped boy had indeed been found, but it was not Sahil.
Then there was the equally mysterious whereabouts of Sahil’s father, Raja Naqqash Saeed.
Rumours had been circulating that the Pakistani national had returned to the UK, against the wishes of the Punjab police who wanted him to remain in the country. Last night Pakistani and British officials confirmed that Mr Saeed had returned to Britain. Foreign Office officials in the UK said he boarded a flight to Manchester on Tuesday night.
For most of yesterday Pakistani officials, including the High Commissioner in London, Wajid Shamsul Hassan, insisted that Mr Saeed was still in the Punjab in “protective custody”. But last night they finally confirmed he had taken a flight back to Britain. It is believed he did not inform police of his intention to fly to the UK.
“He went via PIA [Pakistan International Airways],” Mr Hassan told The Independent last night. “How could a father leave his child like that when he’s still missing?”
Sahil’s relatives in Oldham, meanwhile, a large close-knit family who have kept a vigil around the boy’s inconsolable mother Akila for more than a week, say they have not heard from Mr Saeed in days.
Mr Saeed’s return is another mysterious footnote to a case in which discrepancies have been exposed every day. Many local observers said it was odd that within a conservative Pakistani family a five-year-old child would travel abroad without his mother. It was also bizarre, they added, that the mother had remained in Britain throughout the ordeal. And if the father really had decided to leave Pakistan while his son remained missing, that would be even stranger.
Hard facts are difficult to come by, so what do we know?
What is not disputed is that in the early hours of 4 March, Sahil Saeed went missing. The kidnappers are said to have arrived late at night, just moments before Mr Saeed and his son were to head to Islamabad airport and return to Britain. Sahil had told his mother that he wanted jacket potatoes when he got home because he was bored of chapattis.
But he never made it home. Instead the gates of the Jhelum compound were opened to allow an awaited taxi to drive in. Accompanying the vehicle was a gang armed with guns and grenades.
Mr Saeed said that he was then “tortured” for several hours before the kidnappers snatched the child and demanded £100,000 in ransom.
The motives of the kidnappers are as unclear as Sahil’s whereabouts. One theory is that the family was targeted because of their connections to Britain, where even the poorest families are largely considered to be rich by Pakistani standards.
The home where Sahil was snatched from lies on a narrow and winding street that boasts many second homes for British-Pakistani families. In recent years loud and gaudy designs, complete with Greek columns, gilt-edged roofs and shimmering mirror tiles have sprung up across Jhelum. Scenting foreign wealth, local rackateers and gangsters may have been tipped off.
But a queue of senior Pakistani ministers and diplomats have also put forward the theory that members of the broader family may have been involved. The taxi driver who came to collect the pair and a man police describe as “a close family member” are the only two that continue to be under arrest.
“When this incident first happened my initial reaction was that it was likely to be some sort of inside job,” Mr Shamsul Hasan said yesterday. “It’s possible that there has been some sort of property dispute between a member of the family in Jhelum and the father.”
There were also suggestions that Mr Saeed had fallen out with his wife, taking Sahil and his mother’s passport to Pakistan. The family – including Mr Saeed – have denied those claims. When The Independent interviewed Mr Saeed last week he bristled at suggestions that the kidnappings came on the heels of a rift within his marriage. “My family, my wife, everyone is with me,” he said. “I am getting too much support from my in-laws.”
The search for Sahil, meanwhile, continues to frustrate. Depressingly, financial kidnappings are not uncommon in parts of Pakistan although it is rare for a foreign born child like Sahil to be targeted.
Re: 5 year old boy abducted for ransom- Jhelum
Nothing is clear yet but I think that there are some links in UK of this kidnapping.
My duty to provide you latest of the issue.
From The Times
March 13, 2010
Father of Sahil Saeed, kidnapped in Pakistan, joins police operation in England
Russell Jenkins
div#related-article-links p a, div#related-article-links p a:visited { color:#06c; } The father of the British boy kidnapped in Pakistan is working alongside police officers in England to help to secure his son’s release, it was disclosed last night.
Police confirmed that Raja Naqqash Saeed, 28, flew into Manchester Airport on Tuesday evening from Islamabad.
Since then he has been helping officers from Greater Manchester Police (GMP) who are liaising with law enforcement officers in Pakistan. The force emphasised last night that he is not under arrest.
Sahil Saeed was seized by raiders armed with guns and hand grenades in the early hours of March 4 while on a two-week visit with his father, Raja Naqqash Saeed, 28, to Jhelum, Punjab.
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The men were said to have put 12 members of the family through a six-hour ordeal in which they were beaten and threatened with death. They demanded a £100,000 before leaving with the child.
Later that day Akila Naqqash, 31, the child’s mother, spoke through tears of the sweet little boy who had phoned home every day of the holiday to say he was sick of chapatis and just wanted a jacket potato.
Her emotional trauma was clear to everyone in the sparsely-furnished room. It was only the start of an agonising and continuing wait for news of her son.
Mr Saeed was said to have decided to fly home against the wishes of the Pakistani authorities who wanted him to stay in the Punjab to identify witnesses.
The confirmation from GMP comes as the search for Sahil reaches a critical stage.
Chief Superintendent Darren Shenton, the force’s head of serious crime, said: “GMP, on behalf of UK law enforcement, is working at the behest and in conjunction with the Pakistani authorities, who are in charge of the investigation into Sahil’s kidnap.
“Both authorities are keen to ensure Sahil is returned safely to his mother and father at the earliest opportunity.
“Following his return from Pakistan, GMP are working closely with Sahil’s father, his wife and family to ensure the safe return of Sahil. GMP has not made any arrests in relation to the Pakistani investigation.”
Meanwhile, the family have retired behind the front door of their modest stone-clad house in Shaw, Oldham.
For eight days a battery of 24-hour news television cameras has been trained on the terrace, where the child’s mother is being comforted by close relatives.
The family is well-established and well-liked in Shaw, a suburb of Oldham with a view over the surrounding moors. It is a typically extended Pakistani family with uncles, aunts, grandparents and cousins living closely together in neighbouring streets.
The British-born Mrs Naqqash works in a local Iceland supermarket and family members run the Poundbusters store on the main shopping street and the Motown 24 hours taxi company near by. She married in an arranged ceremony seven years ago.
The couple have two other children besides Sahil — Anisha, four and Hafsah, 21 months.