Sahil: the agonising wait goes on

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.