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Sahil: the agonising wait goes on
Date published: 10 March 2010
THE agonising wait is continuing for the family of kidnapped Shaw boy Sahil Saeed.
A week after the five-year-old was snatched at gunpoint from his grandmother’s house in Jhelum, Pakistan, there has still been no sign of the Rushcroft School pupil.
Police in Pakistan have several times said they are closing in on the kidnappers but there was no good news this morning.
Former Oldham Mayor and family friend Riaz Ahmad said: “It’s agony for them.
“There doesn’t seem to be any progress at all. It’s very unusual as normally with these cases it takes two to three days.”
Pakistan interior minister Rehman Malik has made finding the little lad his top priority and Interpol have been called into the search amid fears that Sahil may have been taken out of the country.
His heartbroken mother Akila Naqqash has made several emotional appeals for his safe return and family in Oldham have been keeping a sleepless vigil at their Queen Street home.
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The return of the father looks very suspicious.
Hang on a minute, your 5 year old son is kidnapped in a foreign country yet his father returns home? Raised eyebrows!
Am I missing something here? Three of you have the same information about the father returning home. It says nothing about him in the article.
Not seen any news today - just came on this website. Perhaps that explains it.
Best wishes to the family. Whatever the adults motives may be there is a child involved here and should not be forgotten.
Think you all need to hang fire before jumping to your conclusions and have some sympathy with the family until proven otherwise. I hope for the safe return of Sahil and my heart goes out to the family who has been put through this ordeal. I totally back the fund being collected in the same way i backed the Madeline McCann fund for her search...
I said from the start its a scam to get money from news organisations who would give the supposed kidnappers money.
An inside job with out doubt!!
i wouldnt leave if it was my child untill i had my child back thats what parents do not begger off n leave them on the other side of the world i smell a big rat
Must admit it looks strange. He's come home far too soon and he should remain there helping with negotiations and to welcome his son when he is (hopefully) released.
Maybe he had to come back to sign on the dole !! when i was unemployed the horrible staff in the dole office told me that if i went to Spain for 2 weeks that had been booked for almost a year ! then my money would be stopped.It wouldnt surprise me if that hasnt happened in this poor mans case.I am praying that the little lad is found and returned to his family very soon,and that the people involved in this terrrible case get what is coming to them and that no money changes hands.
Getting confusing and conflicting reports over here in Singapore. Some say that the father and grandfather have gone into hiding because of threats made against them and that the father is not back in the UK. Another report said the son had been found and that was later denied. One more stated that being from the UK many believe the family to be rich and distant relatives hoped to get some cash by kidnapping the boy. The saga continues.
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And now the father has returned home against the advice of the police in a very strange move amid further rumours that someone in the family had something to do with the kidnap.
There are also rumours of a fund being set up to pay the ransom. This would have the effect of encouraging more kidnapping and is the reason why the UK does not pay ransoms. Hopefully this is not true. I'm sure everyone hopes that Sahil is being treated well and will be released soon.
By Flake @ 10/03/2010 13:59:13