Should a 5 year old British boy really have been abducted for ransom?”
ISLAMABAD — The kidnapping of a 5-year-old British boy in Pakistan may have involved someone in his family, which was perceived as being well-off, a top Pakistani diplomat said Friday. Sahil Saeed was snatched from his grandmother’s house in Pakistan’s Jehlum city overnight Wednesday after robbers held the family at gunpoint for several hours, British officials and the boy’s family said. The robbers also took some household possessions and demanded a large ransom to return the child, whose picture and story made British and some Pakistani front pages Friday. The case is among a soaring number of kidnappings for ransom in Pakistan, where Taliban-led militancy and a struggling economy have fueled crime. Most victims are Pakistani nationals. Wajid Hassan, Pakistan’s envoy to London, said investigators were probing whether someone in Sahil’s family was involved. “The perception is that they had a lot of money,” Hassan told The Associated Press. “So somebody from inside of the family who is
