DSP given a week to find missing girl

Adopted by an aunt, the girl was allegedly taken by another aunt.

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 in 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, earlier filed a petition through his lawyer Rai Qaisar Abbas saying that he suspected his sister, Farhana*, had taken away his daughter. She was not sharing any information about the child, he told the court. Adnan added 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’s whereabouts. 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, saying she herself had been worried about the disappearance of the girl. Adnan and his six children had been living in Belgium for many years.

*Names changed to protect identity

Published in The Express Tribune, March 7^th, 2012.