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| September 5, 2005 | Monday | Rajab 30, 1426 |
FBI springs into action on Bush’s intervention: Kidnapping of WB staffer
RAWALPINDI, Sept 4: Following intervention of President George W. Bush into a case concerning kidnapping of a World Bank security guard from Rawalpindi, an FBI team has started investigation to recover the missing man, a source said on Sunday.
He said a three-member team of the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrived in Rawalpindi on Saturday and discussed the case with local police who had already been searching for the missing person, Saqib Jameel Ahmed.
Saqib, who had been residing in Virginia, US, for the last eight years, came to Arya Mohallah, Rawalpindi, to attend his sister’s wedding and went missing in April, 2005.
Saqib Jameed’s mother told Dawn that her son was home when his ex-employee Matloob and ex-business partner Imran Chaudhry called him out and drove him away to some unspecified destination. Since then, both Saqib and Imran have been missing.
Concerned parents and relatives started a search on April 17, three days before his sister’s wedding ceremony was to be held. But after their efforts proved unproductive, they contacted the City police, who lodged an FIR on the charge of kidnapping on April 20, 2005 following the complaint of Saqib’s father Jamil Ahmed.
When contacted, Saqib’s mother said: “I beseech whoever is keeping my son to release him. His brothers, sisters, wife and a three-year-old daughter are waiting for him.”
She said she had written to the US president, Pakistan’s consulate in the US and also to President Gen Pervez Musharraf, seeking their help in the recovery of her son.
“Had this incident happened in the United States, people would have seen results,” the grieved mother said sobbingly.
She said following her letter to President George W. Bush, the US police had been very cooperative. On the instructions of the Pakistani consulate, she also went to meet the interior minister but he was unavailable.
“I wept before the police officers here in the City Police Station, but nobody came forward to recover my son because the accused belonged to Gujrat and were more influential,” she said.
She further said two days ago she succeeded in meeting with District Police Officer Rawalpindi Saud Aziz who told her that the police were trying to recover her son.
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