KASUR, May 1: A helpless couple of Club Road has lost all hopes of ever seeing their son who has been missing for the last seven months.

With tears in her eyes, retired schoolteacher Mrs Shamshad said that her son Shehzad had never returned home after he had gone to drop his elder daughter, 6, at her school on a motorcycle on Sept 18, 2006.

She said the whole family got perturbed when Shehzad, who was in his sleeping suit, did not return till lingering shadows of the evening. His motorcycle was later found some one-kilometer away from the house and the spot was out of way. An extensive search was launched but they found no trace of him. Since then, she said, no one had contacted them for ransom.

She said the Kasur police also failed to find any clue to her missing son. The family stopped persuing the case when the police started threatening Muhammad Aslam, victim’s father, to put him behind the bars for kidnapping his son, she further alleged.

The mother and all family members have appealed President Pervez Musharraf and human rights organisations to help trace out Shehzad, the father of two minor children.