FAISALABAD: A UK national’s struggle for the recovery of his kidnapped son has met a tragic end after a DNA report confirmed that an ‘unclaimed body’ buried in a Gojra graveyard is of his child.

The family will proceed to Gojra on Friday (today) for exhumation of the body to bring it back to Faisalabad for burial with religious rites.

Four-year-old Shehryar Iftikhar was kidnapped from Asim Town, D Type Colony, on Aug 21 last when he was playing outside the house of his grandfather. The family did not receive any call for ransom.

Iftikhar Ahmad told Dawn that all his efforts including entreaties to the senior police officers for safe recovery of his son proved futile. He said the police could have saved the life of the child with a bit of effort but most officers took the case casually.