British boy kidnapped in Pakistan reunited with father
Sahil Saeed has been reunited with father
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Thursday, 18, Mar 2010 05:30
By Richard James.
A five-year-old British boy kidnapped while on holiday in Pakistan has finally been reunited with his father after his family paid a £110,000 ransom.
Sahil Saeed was discovered wandering alone on Tuesday before being handed in to Pakistani police, some two weeks after he was taken.
A spokesman for the British High Commission in Islamabad confirmed he had been reunited with his father Raja Naqqash Saeed.
"Everyone was in very good spirits and of course delighted about his return," he said.
"Sahil was playing football with his father in the garden and seemed really happy."
The pair finally left for the UK from Pakistan on Thursday afternoon.
On Wednesday Spanish media reported two Pakistani men and a Romanian woman had been arrested near Tarragona in the north-east of the country by officers investigating the kidnapping.
Last night details of the abduction and the international police investigation also emerged.
Spanish police claim Sahil's father travelled to Paris to pay the ransom with surveillance officers watching him make the transfer before arresting a number of suspects - three in Spain and two others in France.
TV pictures also emerged of police officers uncovering a suitcase filled with money, believed to be part of the ransom.
Watch footage of Sahil Saeed's reunion with his father: