Family denies kin concerned in boy"s kidnap in Pakistan World headlines The Guardian

Sahil Saeed, five, from Oldham, Greater Manchester, was snatched whilst on vacation his parents mom in Pakistan. Photograph: Dave Thompson/AFP/Getty Images

The family of the kidnapped five-year-old Sahil Saeed reacted furiously currently to suggestions that kin competence have played a piece in his kidnap in Pakistan.

"That"s all rubbish," pronounced the boy"s father, Raja Naqqash Saeed. "I don"t know who [the kidnappers] are, I don"t know where they come from."

Sahil, from Oldham, Greater Manchester, was snatched by an armed squad from his grandmother"s residence in Punjab, hours prior to he and his father were due to lapse to Britain.

The kidnappers have demanded £100,000 for his protected return.

Wajid Shamsul Hasan, the Pakistani high supervision official to the UK, indicated in a radio talk currently that detectives were seeking at the probability of either the kidnap concerned any of the boy"s relatives.

"We are committed to recuperating the immature boy, he said. "All the resources are being destined … in Punjab. They have arrested a couple of persons. The primary examination is additionally seeking at the probability of a sort of inside pursuit as well. There"s a probability of someone in the family carrying a little sort of knowledge. The notice is that they had a lot of money, so somebody from inside of the family who is less advantageous competence have organised it."

At the family"s home in Oldham, Sahil"s great-uncle Matlub Ahmed pronounced the family played no piece in the abduction. "The people who did this contingency have had a little information, but that is all," he said. "We are all praying to move that kid back. His mom has been great all night. So far, we have got no headlines at all, but one write call can shift everything."

Police in Pakistan have voiced certainty in Sahil being lapse safely, but it is misleading either they have any genuine leads. On Thursday, the day of the kidnapping, the motorist of the cab requisitioned to take Saeed and his son to the airfield was arrested. The kidnappers had finished their getaway in the vehicle, that was deserted about 1.5 miles from the residence in Jhelum.

In overnight raids, eight some-more people were arrested but they are believed to be well known criminals who were dull up in box they had information. Tahir Bashir, the internal military military officer streamer the investigation, said: "We are trying. God willing, we will find a lead. The total military force is involved. All angles are being explored."

Phil Woolas, the immigration apportion and Oldham East and Saddleworth MP, pronounced military were following clever leads. "This is the series one priority for the Foreign Office in Pakistan. But the concentration is still on the military operation."

The supervision will examination the transport recommendation for the segment once the incident is resolved, he added.

A Foreign Office orator said: "We are monitoring the examination closely. The Pakistani military are receiving this unequivocally severely and a unequivocally estimable bid is being made."

Sahil"s mother, Akila Naqqash, 31, pronounced there was no possibility her family would be means to compensate the ransom. "Sahil is a unequivocally still kid - he"s no mistreat to nobody," she pronounced yesterday.

"Why would they wish to take my son? What have we done? We"ve finished zero wrong."

Riaz Ahmad, a former mayor of Oldham and family friend, pronounced : "The deadline set by the kidnappers came and went. We have listened nothing. Everyone is temperament up but we are praying this distress will shortly be over."