LAHORE: Police said that they had arrested three people suspected of belonging to the gang that abducted 70-year-old American Warren Weinstein, a development expert from Lahore on August 13. Lahore police chief Malik Ahmed Raza said on Wednesday the arrests were made after officers tracked cellphone numbers. He gave no more details. Weinstein was kidnapped by around 10 gunmen from his home in Model Town. Authorities have not said whom they believe seized him, though terrorists or criminal gangs seeking ransom are both possibilities. Weinstein was the country director for JE Austin Associates Inc. “He (Weinstein) has not been taken out of Pakistan,” said Raza while talking to the media. “We will soon recover him,” he added. “We have arrested three men, two from Wazirabad and one from Faisalabad and we are trying to reach their network through them,” he said. Police have also released a sketch of a suspect. JE Austin Associates Inc is an Arlington, Virginia-based consulting firm and has been working on a development project in the lawless Tribal Areas where Pakistani troops have been battling terrorists for years. agencies.
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