British boy abducted in Jehlum

[mjnaushad]

The ARY News is reporting that Pakistan's Ambassador to UK has confirmed that the kidnapped young boy is back in Britain with his parents.

The boy grandfather denied it on Samaa tv

 

[AstanoshKhan]

It is a sad incident indeed and may the poor kid back home safe and sound. Inshallah
But
what about other ordinary Pakistanis (who are not brits/foreigners), who went/are missing?

 

[HAWK73]

"Aghwa Bara-e-Tawan" is what become business in Pakistan.
Its very sad what happen to this UK family.

I am following the story on ARY ONE WORLD.
Lets hope that Sahil will return back to his family soon.

 

[Peregrine]

Hi,
i hope they find the boy soon! how ever i have a question i am assuming his parents have dual nationalities?and may be the kid also has Pakistani nationality so since he was abducted in Pakistan so the news goes like this British boy abducted in Pakistan. But when such people commit crimes in UK or USA its like this Muslims from Pakistan have committed crimes, double standards of west.

 

[Ahmad]

there were some conflicting reports today that he has been found, but later on it was dismissed by senior police officers, in the meantime the boy's father has retruned to the UK.

 

[pak-marine]

what about other ordinary Pakistanis (who are not brits/foreigners), who went/are missing?

Good question brother ans is :: nothing .. no one gives a monkey !

 

[mjnaushad]

British high commision in Pakistan just confirmed the news of release of British boy without any ransom paid.

 

[fawwaxs]

British boy kidnapped in Jhelum freed

ISLAMABAD: A British boy who was kidnapped in Pakistan earlier this month has been released, a relative said on Tuesday.



“He is safe,” said Raja Basharat, the boy's grand-uncle.



Police in Jhelum, the town where Sahil Saeed was kidnapped, had said the gunmen who abducted him after holding relatives at gunpoint for several hours took away 150,000 rupees ($1,750) and some gold and later demanded a 10 million rupee ($118,000) ransom.

The circumstances around his release were not clear.



“It is fantastic news which brings an end to the traumatic ordeal faced by Sahil and his family,” the British High

Commissioner in Islamabad said in a statement.



Interior Minister Rehman Malik had said he suspected relatives were involved in the kidnapping.

DAWN.COM | Pakistan | British boy kidnapped in Jhelum freed

 

[Luftwaffe]

well sad what ever happened but now he is back to UK...but i think this case has been shown exclusively but what about those children who lost their parents and mothers or fathers nobody talks about them? is this british boy very important than those children displaced? i've always switched off tv when this news was played.

 

[Ahmad]

A huge relief for the family.

 

[mjnaushad]

well sad what ever happened but now he is back to UK...but i think this case has been shown exclusively but what about those children who lost their parents and mothers or fathers nobody talks about them? is this british boy very important than those children displaced? i've always switched off tv when this news was played.

well said. Its true if the boy inducted were one of us or a common pakistani. His parent must be getting humilated in police stations.

 

[salahuldin786]

boy found yes very good.... but all fingers should turn to the father who left his kid a week after the abduction and traveled back to u.k and look the kid is found a week later.....mmmmmmmmmmm

 

[tamir]

^We are very fast to point fingers....I'm happy for the family. Being a father I cannot even imagine the grief the family must have gone through. Happy ending to this ordeal.

 

[sparklingway]

Local kidnapping cases go ignored
Tuesday, 16 Mar, 2010

Pakistani woman Shamin Akhtar Butt, mother of kidnapped Mahnoor Fatima, 6, holds a placard and a picture of Mahnoor at a police office in Jhelum on March 16, 2010. – AFP

JHELUM: When six-year-old Mahnoor Fatima disappeared, her mother's world collapsed. But she was too poor and abductions too common for Pakistani police to do much more than register the case.

So when Shamin Akhter Butt discovered senior officials were working round the clock to free a five-year-old British boy kidnapped nearly two weeks ago, she rushed to his home in the vain hope of attracting attention to her plight.

“Despite our cries and tears these last six months, nothing has happened. Why isn't the same attention given to my daughter?” asked Butt through tears as she stood on the lawn of the British boy's family home this month.

Mahnoor disappeared while playing outside on October 6 last year, but unlike Sahil Saeed, whose overjoyed family heard Tuesday he had been released, she has never been seen again.

“This shows the difference between rich and poor. No one even came to my house to console me... Everything is done here for the rich and the British but nothing for Pakistanis and the poor,” she told AFP by telephone on Tuesday.

When Sahil Saeed was kidnapped at the end of a holiday with his grandmother, other people with loved ones missing descended on his home in Jhelum, about 100 kilometres south of the capital Islamabad.

The compound shared by Sahil's grandmother and uncle was crowded with Jhelum notables, political leaders, journalists from local newspapers and correspondents from some of the world's most influential news channels.

The parents and families of children missing far longer than Sahil, with none of the diplomatic support or pledges of assistance from the government and police, were left wishing for more.

According to combined statistics from Pakistan's four provinces, 240 people were kidnapped across the country in the first two months of the year alone - with only 74 of them recovered so far.

Many of the cases are related to family quarrels, love affairs, property disputes or simple quests for money - particularly for the wealthier victims.

In Karachi, Mohammad Masroor, a sales executive with a local firm, said he welcomed Sahil's release, but was desperately worried about his brother Irfan Ali, 22, who was kidnapped when he went out to run errands.

“Other poor Pakistanis should be helped in the same way as the authorities helped that British family,” Masroor told AFP.

“We searched for him the whole night. I inquired about him from relatives and searched hospitals but didn't find him. Then we lodged a report with the police about his disappearance,” he said.

The next day, the family received an anonymous call demanding five million rupees (59,500 dollars) for his release.

“That call was a bombshell for the family, for our mother in particular. We were helpless as the amount was far beyond our reach,” he said.

Police apparently believe kidnappers are holding Irfan somewhere in thick forest in northern Sindh province, leaving police “helpless” in accessing what has become a virtual no-go area for law enforcement authorities.

“The whole family is extremely disturbed, but I have put all my savings together and borrowed from relatives to make it one million rupees. I believe Allah will help me in getting my brother released soon.”

In the northwestern city of Peshawar, Tariq Ali's 15-year-old son was kidnapped last August but he is still without news.

“Our rulers don't consider the children of Pakistani citizens human beings. They don't act promptly as they do if a foreigner goes missing,” said Ali, who owns a bakery.

His son Hashim Ali, a student in ninth grade was kidnapped in broad daylight just after leaving home for a nearby playground.

“I've submitted applications to every government office ranging from the governor to the inspector general of police but nothing has happened.

“But if a child with another nationality gets kidnapped in Pakistan then they do the maximum and even visit their homes,” Ali said.

“They don't even ask about locals and Pakistanis who are being kidnapped every day. I have lost zest for life without my son but nobody cares,” said Ali, the wrinkles on his face deepening into furrows.

 

[HAWK73]

Sahil Saeed were recovered by an place "Dinga" near Kharian distic Gujrat.
I also hear that what Police Officer from Rawalpindi said in his speech.
Once he said to his police men "Go and bring the boy front of media" after it took a while then message comes that no its not possible to bring him front of media at the moment.

Police even not telling that how he has been recovered neither what police did to get him as alive.

Soon after I saw at GEO NEWS that 3 year old girl were killed in Peshawar after her parents just couldn`t give Rs.10.00.000 to the kidnappers. Because they were so poor to arrange this huge amount.
After we saw the little girl the way she were killed we all got tears in our eyes and wish that those killed her deserve a kind of penalty like death soon as possible.