A five-year-old British boy, of Pakistani origin, has been kidnapped while in Pakistan:
Sahil Saeed from Oldham, Greater Manchester, was taken from the Punjab region this morning after the family was held captive and robbed by five men armed with guns and hand grenades.
Sahil had been staying with his grandmother in the city of Jhelum and was due to return home today, the British high commission in Islamabad said.
Sahil’s father, Raja Naqqash Saeed, described today how his family were beaten and kicked during a six-hour ordeal that began when men broke into the house last night.
“They took me into the separate room and they tortured me,” he told Sky News. “They said: ‘We will take your son and you will have to pay £100,000.’
“They took my son. They were fully loaded with guns and hand grenades. All Pakistan police know about this, and the British Council.”
