really surprised there is no thread about the 5 yo British boy kidnapped in Pakistan.

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Sorry - unable to copy/paste links atm.

But basically the house was broken into, the family were beaten and went through a six hour ordeal before the kidnappers left with the child who was on holiday with his father.

They are demanding a £100000 randsome.

Not much on their website - in any case he flew to Pakistan with Sahil after a row with Sahil's Mum and took her passport so she could not follow. A bit abusive non?

the picture is still very unclear

some reports from Pakistan saying the boy hasn't even been found yet

I find it very difficult to believe a boy using the correct passport could get through border controls with all this publicity going on

how strange..

on bbc last night it was reported that the dad had arrived back in the UK on the Tuesday night flight into Manchester.

So - are we to assume that this child was found at some point on Tuesday, reunited with his father, and then the foreign office played along by flying the father and child back to the UK without the knowledge of the child's mother?

wtf?

Literally only just came on this thread as I have seen it on the board but not read it before.
I came on to post that he ahs been found but see I have been beaten to it

I would say wrt the 'non comments' I made a promise to myself that after the debacle of the McCann threads that I wouldn't post on similar threads regarding children, there is nothing I can do or say that would change anythin so I just read about it on other sites.
I have only read this now as it is a good outcome and he is found.

Still unconfirmed

On Sky News

yes htis thread is a lettle maccan style you lot..

BBC reporting that Pakistani authorities are dismissing reports he has been found and is home

Hope the Sky news report is the correct one.

What is it that's McCann style SuSylvester? Not that I read or commented on the McCann threads ever.

when she went missing htere were endless threads about it
a nd a lot of tasteless speculation and ghoulery

it got very contraversial

Ah - haven't read the whole of this thread yet. Yes - remember the furore over the McCann threads si stayed well away from them.

Just been to Google news and there are lots of reports sayin g he has been found interspersed by other reports saying this is still unclear and trying to get confirmation. I am hoping that means he has been found and it's just got to be confirmed officially.

Radio 5 definitively saying that he has noit been found.

sorry - not

hugely irresponsible for news broadcasters to say that he's been found if it's not confirmed/thus potentially not true.

It looks like the little boy found is from another kidnap! Hope that little boy is now reunited with his parents.

If it were my son I wouldn't leave the country.

this from the guardian: (apologies - I can't cut/paste links)

"There was confusion today over the fate of Sahil Saeed, the five-year-old British boy kidnapped in
Pakistan
, after media reports that he had been found were contradicted by police chiefs.

The controversial Punjab law minister, Rana Sanaullah, told Geo TV that Sahil, who was kidnapped from his grandmother's house in Jehlum a week ago, was
rescued in Sialkot, a neighbouring city in the north-eastern Punjab province.

He said Sahil had been sent back to the UK to be reunited with his father, and a man and woman had been arrested on kidnapping charges. He alleged two female
relatives of Sahil had been involved in the kidnapping.

But Sanaullah appeared to have confused two different kidnapping cases.

Police said the rescued boy was not Sahil, and the minister was mistaken.

"I wish the news were true but it's not true," said Waqar Chohan, the senior police official from Sialkot. "We recovered one child, but that was not this
case. That child was abducted from Rawalpindi."

So far Sanaullah has not changed his statement, leading to continuing confusion.

A spokesman at the British high commission in Islamabad said this morning he had received "no evidence" that Sahil had been found but reporters were being
urgently checked.

The Jhelum police investigations superintendent, Khalid Mehmood, said he was unaware of the reports that Sahil had been rescued.

Sahil and his father were on the last day of a two-week holiday when robbers broke into his grandmother's house.

The robbers made a ransom demand of £100,000 when they snatched Sahil and were understood to have repeated the demand in phone calls to his father. The
Pakistani authorities contacted Interpol for help with the investigation after reports the kidnappers called from international numbers, including one
in Spain.

Pakistani officials have accused members of Sahil's family of being involved in the abduction. They denied the claims.

Sahil's father, Raja Naqqash Saeed,
returned to the UK
yesterday. He left the country in defiance of Pakistani wishes that he remained there as a witness, according to reports."

This is very odd. I hope he has been found.

The provicial head of police says yes, senior polititians say no. The dad goes back to the Uk and other family members aren't aware?

And then this one from about 8 mins ago say that the father is still in Pakistan and had been taken into protective custody for his own safety..

Sky

"Pakistan's Law minister has told Sky News that the British boy kidnapped in the Punjab Province - Sahil Saeed - has been found.

The minister says the five-year-old boy, who was located yesterday, is safe and "in very good health".

Sky's Asia Correspondent, Alex Crawford, has been informed that the boy was found in Sialkot, a town near to where he was taken.

Senior Pakistani police told Sky News that a number of arrests have been made, including one woman.

Authorities claim that members of Sahil Saeed's family were involved in his disappearance.

British diplomats are "urgently" checking reports of the boy's rescue, but so far the Foreign Office has no confirmation.

Detectives involved in the investigation are not saying that Sahil Saeed has been rescued but "hope to have something in the next 24 to 48 hours".

Alex Crawford says: "The Pakistani authorities deliberately kept the boy's discovery secret because of fears over his safety.

"Sources, who wish to remain unnamed, have said to me that Raja Naqqash Saeed and his son have not left Pakistan."

She added: "Despite reports yesterday that the father had returned home, he was not on any passenger lists for planes leaving Pakistan yesterday.

"Sources have told us that Raja Naqqash Saeed was receiving threats from people connected to the kidnapping even before the boy went missing.

"It's been suggested that when he disappeared a couple of days ago he'd been taken into protective custody."

At the boy's family home near Oldham, his mother and immediate family have not been given any information about Sahil's release."

Obviously you cannot analyse everything the media is reporting here or take everything they say as the truth.

Speculation serves this case no good. He may or may not have flown back to the UK. His family may or may not have known his plans - and who's to say they were interviewing the correct family?

This case is being handled very very badly by the police and Pakistani officials and they are just adding to the family's nightmare. Imagine how it must feel to hear on the news that your dh is coming home, then to hear that your ds has been found and is with your dh, then finding out that none of the above is true.

This is not a reflection on the family of that missing boy, this is a reflection of the farcial actions of the Pakistani police and officials.

Seeker - I agreed with your point about racism, but if you don't agree with this thread then hide it. I want to know if this boy has been found and if he is safe. I don't care what anyone else thinks of my motives. I was born in Oldham, still have family there and my ds is the same age as this little boy, so that's my dodgy connection. Judge away.

yes I agree this is being handled badly both by the pakistani authorities and now by the media.

Apparently the law minister in Pakistan confirmed on local and national television there that the child had been found, and now this fact is being disputed? And sky news have said nothing about the disputed claims, ffs this morning that alex woman was saying "well it's come from a senior source, so obviously it's true even though it hasn't been confirmed."

It must be horrible for this child's family to hear all this on the news rather than first-hand from any reputable source, although given the reporting I'm not surprised they're saying they want to see video proof before they believe it's true.

bbc saying they've had confirmation from a senior police source that he has not been found.

sky also now saying the british High commissioner in Pakistan confirmed he has not been found. such bloody irresponsible reporting.

That poor woman, her relief back to anguish.

Media reporting indeed lamentable. Apparently reporters from GMTV this morning when knocking on the mum's door in Oldham saying 'great news he's been found' - bonkers- based on 'confirmation' from a Minister.