RIYADH, 12 May — All five Pakistani nationals detained on suspicion of abducting a 13-year Pakistani boy who has been missing here for two months have been released by the local police without charge.

Jan Mohammed, who is frantically trying to locate his missing son, met Prince Salman ibn Abdul Aziz, governor of Riyadh region, here today and handed over to him an application strongly urging the governor to intervene in order to speed up the investigation.

He also lashed out at the local police and the Pakistani Embassy, which still have no leads on the whereabouts of the missing boy.

Jan Mohammed told Arab news: "Prince Salman gave a patient hearing to my plea and his royal highness referred my application to the concerned departments in the governorate. I am very hopeful that Prince Salman’s instructions will speed up the process of investigation, leading to an early recovery of the boy — either dead or alive."

The light-skinned Pakistani boy, Abdul Rahman, who many believe has been abducted by a pervert, has been missing since March 13 after going for a ride on his motorbike. The boy, whose family hails from the Dera Ghazi Khan area of Pakistan, is the third son from the first wife of Jan Mohammed.

The local police said yesterday they have not been able to trace the missing boy or even the motorbike he was riding when he went missing, despite the fact that the case was lodged at the police station two months ago.

The boy’s father called on Pakistani diplomats to exert more efforts to help the family to alleviate its sufferings, while accusing the local Pakistani mission that it has failed miserably to do anything "substantial" until today.

A spokesman at the Pakistani Embassy, Ahmed Rana Matloub, told Arab News: "The embassy has already sought the help of the host government and it has written to the Saudi Foreign Ministry about the case of the missing boy."

The Pakistani mission, he added, is awaiting a reply from the ministry. The mission, which may send another reminder to the Saudi Foreign Ministry on this subject, earlier sent a report to the Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Islamabad.

Asked about the release of the five detained for several days by the police, Jan Mohammed said that all of the five Pakistanis were picked up in his own neighborhood.

For the first time, he admitted that he is convinced that "only my compatriots are involved in this evil act".

"The kidnappers are none other than Pakistanis from my own native place of Dera Ghazi Khan, who are trying to settle some scores with me," he claimed.

He added that he does not know the reason and fails to understand "what on earth could have happened to my innocent child."

The case of missing Abul Rahman is proving a riddle both for the police and the embassy. His parents are still hopeful that he will return.

Other members of the local Pakistani community from where the boy was abducted told Arab News that they remain hopeful the boy will be returned safely. They pointed to the example of a 10-year-old Saudi boy who was reunited with his family only last week after going missing for four years. The boy left home to buy something from a nearby grocery shop and never returned. It transpired that he had been kidnapped and taken to Yemen. A woman later helped him to escape and return to the Saudi-Yemeni border, from where a Saudi teacher eventually brought him home.