LAHORE: Police on Thursday released sketch of alleged kidnaper who abducted the US citizen Warren Weinstein last week.
According
to media reports sketch of one kidnaper out of eight was released which
was made by the help of guard and driver of Warren Weinstein.
Last
Saturday, eight men entered 60-year-old Warren Weinstein’s house and
kidnapped him after overpowering security guards in an upscale Lahore
locality.
Weinstein has been identified as working for JE
Austin & Associates, an Arlington, Virginia-based consulting firm,
on a development project in FATA.
Weinstein had been living in Pakistan for more than five years.
The
police have detained three people but their identity is not known yet.
There are fears in US media that the American national may have been
kidnapped in the mistaken belief that he was working for the US
government.
However, a US official said that it was a “routine
kidnapping” and that the American will be recovered “soon”. US embassy
spokesman Alberto Rodriguez said they had not yet been informed about
any progress in the case. No one has claimed responsibility for the
abduction. Online
