MUHAMMAD ZAID LAGHARI
Lahore’s communities blame the police for not doing enough about the apparent rise in kidnapping cases but authorities contest the locals’ version of why their children are missing.Umair’s parents had been frantically searching for their son a few weeks ago when his body was discovered in a sack placed in a drain.It had only been a week since the eight-year-old had gone missing. The youngest in his family, Umair was, according to his father, Shafiq Bhatti, more ambitious than his three other siblings. Umair was one of 11 children that have recently gone missing from Badami Bagh (the police have told Images on Sunday that three of those missing children have since returned).And kidnappers sell’s internal organs of kids. And selling them. Parents residing in the area apparently live in a state of perpetual fear and outrage; there have been reportedly many protests by Badami Bagh residents outside police stations and there is tangible tension between the local community and the authorities.Parents residing in the area apparently live in a state of perpetual fear and outrage; there have been reportedly many protests by Badami Bagh residents outside police stations and there is tangible tension between the local community and the authorities.
