Police officers surround a car of Shahbaz Taseer, who was kidnapped from Lahore. – Photo by AP

LAHORE: The city police has again claimed progress in the two high profile kidnapping cases in Lahore, but said that it was not going to share the latest developments with the media, DawnNews reported.

Deputy Inspector General (Investigation) Ali Aamir Malik said at a news conference here on Wednesday that the joint investigation team was working day and night into the cases of kidnappings of US citizen Warren Weinstein and Shahbaz Taseer, son of slain Punjab governor Salman Taseer.

Up to eight assailants kidnapped Weinstein in a pre-dawn raid on his house in Lahore on August 13 while Taseer was kidnapped last month by armed men near his company’s head office.

Answering a question about the involvement of militant groups in Weinstein abduction, Malik said that he was not aware of any such information and added that he had no knowledge weather the US embassy was engaged in a dialogue with militants over the release of Weinstein.

About the Taseer case, Malik said that the police does not have any proof that Taseer was still in Lahore or taken outside the city.

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