JACOBABAD, May 29: A young man, Asif Pathan, 18, was kidnapped three day ago from Jacobabad but the police were refusing to register the case.

His father, Mohammad Pannah, went to the city police station two days ago to lodge an FIR but he was told that his son was not kidnapped from the police station’s limits. Later he went to the airport police station. They also refused to lodge the FIR on the same pretext. No FIR was lodged till the filing of this report.

The resident of Sheedi Mohalla took out a rally on Thursday and went to meet with DPO Saqib Ismail Memon but he was not available in his office.

Asif’s friend said that they had left him near Eidgah road in the jurisdiction of city police station on the day of his kidnapping while he was a resident of airport police station.

Earlier, the local people took out a protest rally against the kidnapping late on Wednesday.

They were demanding early recovery of the youth.

Mohammad Pannah told reporters that his son had contacted him on cellphone and said that the kidnappers were demanding Rs1 million as ransom. He told him that four other kidnapped people were there. He said he was a poor man and his son works at a private hospital.

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