LAHORE: Police failed on Sunday to find any clue to the kidnapping of US national Warren Weinstein from his residence in Model Town on Saturday.

The suspects did not contact the US Embassy, police and people related to the victim for any demand, making it difficult for investigators to make any headway in the high-profile case that shook the government and grabbed the foreign media’s attention.

Two police teams working on the case held two marathon meetings chaired by DIG Ali Aamir Malik and discussed the pace of investigation involving multiple leads.

The investigators interrogated three security guards — Aurangzeb, Mohammad Abbas and Fazal Elahi — and driver Mohammad Israr the whole day, but were unable to get any lead about the kidnappers.

The double-storey house where Mr Weinstein lived remained sealed the whole day for investigation. A few security officials stayed at the place.

The investigators collected fingerprints from the scene and kept quizzing neighbours in search of any eyewitness accounts.

A Crimes Investigation Agency police official, who is part of the investigation, told Dawn that three security guards, who were hired from a Defence-based private security company, were retired SSG commandoes.

He said Mr Weinstein’s driver Israr hailed from Swabi district and had been working with the J.E. Austin Associates for the last four years.

He said that circumstantial evidence at the crime scene established that at least five CCTVs installed at the gates and other portions of the house cum office had been dysfunctional for the last one year.

He said that police had with the help of guards and the driver, developed sketches of the suspects, who were wearing shirts and trousers and speaking Urdu.The official said the laptop, cellphones and other evidence found in the victim’s room were under thorough examination.

The call data of two cellphones the suspects took away from two security guards was being examined and an effort was being made to trace the locations of cellphones, if switched on, with their EIME numbers.

The official said a security lapse on the part of Mr Weinstein was evident as he did not bother to inform police, special branch or even the US consulate in Lahore about his presence and movement across Pakistan.

Police also called the owner of the security company for verification of credentials of security guards and collected details about their track record.

DIG Investigation Ali Aamir Malik told Dawn that police teams, working on different clues, had been given multiple tasks.

He, however, said there was no breakthrough in the case so far.