PESHAWAR, Jan 4: The family of a kidnapped school teacher has been constantly approaching the police and the political administration in the Khyber Agency to secure his release from the kidnappers but to no avail. Shakeel Alam, resident of Haji Banda village in the Achini Bala area in a city suburb, told this correspondent that his father Jaffar Khan, who is a school teacher, was kidnapped from the Ring Road intersection by unidentified people when he was going to a school in Pishtakhara Bala on Oct 11.

Mr Alam said that he had lodged a case but the police had done nothing to recover his father.

The Pishtakhara police had asked them to contact the political administration in Khyber Agency as they presumed that Mr Khan might have been kept in the nearby tribal area, Mr Alam said.

He said that the kidnappers had made several telephone calls, mostly from public call offices, and demanded Rs2 million ransom. Later, he added, they had reduced the amount to Rs1.5 million.

He said that the kidnappers had usually been making calls from the Landi Kotal tehsil of Khyber Agency as the CLI system indicated the telephone numbers from which the calls had been made.

However, during talks the kidnappers had not disclosed where his father was kept, he said.

He said that the investigation police of Pishtakhara were asking him to approach the tribal region’s authorities, adding: “I and my relatives have contacted the political administrator of the Khyber Agency and the assistant political administrator in Landi Kotal several times, but in vain.”

The officials refused to help them recover Mr Khan and instead asked them to seek help from the city police, he said.

This correspondent contacted SHO (investigation) Khaliq Dad, who is investigating into the case, several times but failed to get any response.