Tangled web of adoption: DSP given a week to find missing girl

Adopted by an aunt, the girl was allegedly taken by another aunt, who claims not to have her.

RAWALPINDI: The New Town deputy superintendent of police (DSP) has the rest of the week to figure out what happened to a missing six-year-old Belgian-Pakistani girl. The Lahore High Court Rawalpindi Bench Justice Mazhar Iqbal Sindhu on Tuesday directed the DSP to submit a report on the case of Rubab Adnan* by March 12.

The missing girl’s father has accused his sister of kidnapping the child.

Ghulam Adnan*, Rubab’s father, had petitioned through his lawyer Rai Qaisar Abbas that he and his six children had been living in Belgium for many years.

The petitioner suspected that his sister, Farhana*, had taken away his daughter and said she had not been sharing any information about the child.

The petitioner informed the court that he had earlier filed a petition with the Sindh High Court allowing another sister settled in Karachi to adopt his youngest daughter Rubab.

He said he had five daughters and a son and had allowed his sister in Karachi to adopt the youngest, but for the last two years he was given no information about his daughter health or whereabouts. Ghulam Adnan told the court that he later learnt his sister in Rawalpindi had taken the child.

However, on Tuesday, the sister from Rawalpindi claimed innocence and ignorance, saying she herself had been worried about the disappearance of the girl.

*Names changed to protect identity