Pakistan looks for clues in US expert abduction

LAHORE, Pakistan - Pakistani police scrambled for leads on Sunday about an American aid expert kidnapped at gunpoint from his house in Lahore, interrogating his guards and combing their phone records for clues.

The US embassy named the man as Warren Weinstein, who Pakistani police said was the country director for the US-based consulting company J.E. Austin Associates, which works on development projects in this frontline state in the war against al-Qaida.

He was grabbed at dawn on Saturday in the wealthy neighborhood of Model Town, just two days before he was to return to the United States after living five years in Pakistan, a deeply conservative Muslim country.