MITHI, Aug 23: A 15-year-old boy belonging to Bheel community, who has forgotten the names of his father and mother and was reportedly kidnapped and kept in unlawful confinement by a driver who used him as a labourer for more than nine years, has appealed to his parents in Mithi to come and take him along with them.

Narrating his ordeal to the journalists at the press club here on Saturday, Kirshan Bheel, said that when he was six years of age and was standing at the bank of a canal, a truck driver Akbar Khan took him and kept him with scores of other children and youths in Swat district (name of town or village not known) where they were beaten and forced to work as a stone crusher and a loader for trucks. They were kept in a fort at night, Kirshan further alleged.

Showing marks of torture to the journalists, the Bheel youth further revealed that one day he got a chance to escape, he boarded a trailer that left him in Nawabshah from where he reached Mithi.

He does not remember the name of the village, however, he would perhaps be able to identify his mother and father, if shown to him. He has appealed to his parents to locate and pick him.

MINISTER: Sindh Minister for Works and Services Manzoor Wassan said on Saturday that steps taken by PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari during last few months reflected his leadership qualities and political acumen.