Interpol called in to investigate kidnapping of British schoolboy
Interpol has been called in to help with the investigation into the kidnapping of a five-year-old British boy in Pakistan amid fears that he may have been taken out of the country.
Sahil Saeed, five, was seized by gunmen on Thursday hours before he was due to fly home to Oldham with his father after visiting his sick grandmother in Jhelum, Punjab
His father, RajaNaqqash Saeed, claimed he had been tortured by four armed men who left with his son and demanded a £100,000 ransom.
Rehman Malik, Pakistan's interior minister, said that Interpol had been asked to help with the investigation but warned the kidnappers that police were closing in.
His comments came after four Pakistani police officers were suspended after initially failing to respond to the family's emergency call. Police in the city have said they have made no progress with the case.
Rehman Malik also gave his backing to claims that the kidnapping was an “inside job” by disgruntled relations.
"There is someone who is very close to the family because the way the situation has happened, the way the entry was made, the way the conduct was done during the whole operation.
"We have certain leads which we would not like to disclose but a warning to those abductors: leave the boy because we are very near to you,” he said after meeting the boy’s father.
The boy's parents are reported to have been involved in a bitter separation shortly before their son was kidnapped.
Mr Saeed took his son out of school and flew with him to his family’s home in Pakistan, leaving his wife Akila and their two daughters behind in Oldham.
He took his wife’s passport with him so she could not follow them to Jhelum, a senior police source in the city south of Islamabad told the Daily Mail.
Mr Saeed, who is unemployed, denied any of his relations are involved. In an interview with the BBC he also denied reports of a family feud
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