Family denies kidnap of five-year-old was inside job

By Dean Nelson in New Delhi and Farzana Fiaz in Lahore Published: 6:43PM GMT 05 March 2010

Sahil Saeed Photo: Manchester Evening News

Pakistan"s High Commissioner in Britain, Wajid Hassan, had pronounced he believed the culprits could be compared with a small of the boy"s own relatives.

He pronounced detectives were "looking at the probability of a sort of inside job" as there had been a notice that the family was wealthy.

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"There"s a probability of someone in the family carrying a small sort of knowledge," he said.

Detectives have questioned the cab motorist who they think might have sloping off the kidnappers about the family"s approaching depart for the airport.

They have additionally ignored claims by Sahil Saeed"s father, Raja Naqqash Saeed, that the kidnappers were armed with hand-grenades.

However, Sahil"s mom Akila Naqqash, who remained at the family home in Oldham whilst her father and son were in Pakistan, has denied any family impasse in the kidnapping.

Breaking down in tears, she said: "We are such a close family, no family part of could do this to a child, not the family.

"We are removing no answers. How are they treating him? Is he eating? He is only a small boy, what has he finished wrong?"

She begged for the assistance of the British Government as she renewed her interest to get her son back.

"I need the assistance of the Government in the UK, they have not responded to us about what theatre they are at and how they are going to assistance us. I wish them to do something about it," pronounced Mrs Naqqash, who additionally has dual daughters elderly 4 and twenty-one months, with her husband.

Mr Hassan after attempted to area himself from his comments and said: "I did not contend that it is an inside pursuit finished by the family, I pronounced somebody circuitously contingency have sensitive those criminals and they contingency be in joining with them."

Sahil was snatched by 4 armed robbers who pounded as he and his father were withdrawal their family"s home in Jhelum, Punjab, to catch a craft home to Manchester.

His father, who is unemployed, said: " I"ve never referred to that any one close to me is involved, I don"t know who the robbers were so if I don"t know, I wouldn"t discuss that I did. The main thing is that I"m removing a lot of await from my family in England and here in Pakistan."

"I think we were targeted since we are from England. They took bullion and income from dual of the houses here. The pirate pronounced "we"re going to take your son. We"ve been tracking you for one week." They asked me where I was going to (why he was going to the airport). I pronounced I"m going to Dubai. They pronounced "you"re not going to Dubai, you"re interlude there for 3 hours and afterwards you"re becoming different onto an additional moody and going to England". They asked that one was my son since they didn"t know. Then they took the passports and checked them. Then at 5am they took my son."

Detectives uttered fears for the boy"s hold up after a deadline for the ransom to be paid on Thursday afternoon upheld but serve information exchnage from the kidnappers.

One comparison military officer pronounced the military were in hit with people they hold to be close to the kidnappers and were assured of anticipating the child protected soon. "We are close to nabbing a small of the suspects and we will give you great headlines really soon," he said.

Investigator Raja Tahir Bashir pronounced a small suspects were being questioned and that "God willing, we will redeem the child really soon."

Aslam Tareen, from the informal military force in Punjab, pronounced the enemy had probably been sloping off about Sahils itinerary.

"They are internal people from here, majority probably, and they have connectors of meaningful that hes leaving, so nobody knew about his programme solely this cab motorist himself and his family," he pronounced

Phil Woolas, the Immigration Minister and MP for Oldham East and Saddleworth, said: "This is the series one priority for the Foreign Office in Pakistan but the concentration is still on the military operation. They have done a small arrests and there have been clever leads but of march it"s really focused and heated review there.

"This small child is removing the full await of the British Government and authorities."