Islamabad: Abductors of the son of slain Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer and American aid worker Warren Weinstein are not militants, but organised extortion gangs who might have sold them to bigger bidders, Pakistani law enforcement agencies fear.
The agencies say that the abductors have sold their ‘prized-catches’ to bigger extortion gangs for higher ransom and this has brought investigations to an almost dead end, the Express Tribune reported.
However, no link has been established with banned militant groups in either case, the paper said quoting sources.
The paper said that the agencies had managed to trace Shahbaz Taseer as well as the kidnapped American only to discover that the original abductors had “sold” their victims to another set of persons for a higher ransom. (PTI)
