PESHAWAR, Aug 22: The city police have arrested an alleged kidnapper from Kakshal locality here, but failed to recover two minor brothers and a driver kidnapped last week.

Two minor sons of late Khwaja Afzal, Laeeq Ahmad, 4, and Mohammad Musa, 5, were kidnapped for ransom along with their driver Baacha Khan, son of Sultan, in the cantonment area on last Sunday.

Informed sources told Dawn that the driver, along with the children, handed over a lunch box to a man at a book shop of late Khwaja Afzal, and were to deliver another lunch box to a shop of kids’ uncle in the Liaquat Bazaar, cantonment area, when the incident took place.

Family of Laeeq and Musa went to Kabuli Police Station for the registration of an FIR, but the officials concerned refused to do so and noted the complaint in the daily report.

The next day the family received a call from a kidnapper, who demanded of the family to pay Rs3 million as ransom for the release of Laeeq and Musa, the sources said. But the family informed the police immediately, who traced the PCO from where the kidnapper had made the call.

The police went to Kakshal area and arrested the PCO owner and the kidnapper who belonged to a well-to-do family, the sources added.

The next day the family again received the call from the kidnappers, who informed that Laeeq had been shifted to Michani area of the Mohmand Agency as he had been sick.

The police, despite arresting one of the alleged kidnappers, yet to find the place where their captors have detained the hostages.

The sources said that the kidnappers might have shifted Laeeq and Musa to Mohmand Agency, where the police had no jurisdiction for search and arrest of criminals.