Kidnapped boy released unhurt after two weeks

KIDNAPPERS released a five-year-old British boy unharmed almost two weeks after abducting him from his grandparents’ house in central Pakistan, British and Pakistani officials said.

A senior provincial official said a ransom was paid for the freedom of Sahil Saeed, who is of Pakistani origin, but he did not identify who abducted the boy and received the money.

Saeed was found in a small village in Punjab province, some 30 kilometres southeast of Jhelum city where armed robbers seized him on March 4, said Interior Minister Rehman Malik.