Good policing: NHMP reunites four children with parents

The children were either lost, or had run away from home.

ISLAMABAD:

The National Highways and Motorway Police (NHMP) has reunited four children, who were either lost or had run away from home, with their parents, according to an NHMP press release. The children were recovered from four different points on Grand Trunk (GT) Road.

Officers patrolling GT Road near Maraka, on the outskirts of Lahore, found 13-year-old Muhammad Ali, who said he had been separated from his parents. Ali was returned to his maternal grandfather Muhammad Anwar after the necessary police work, the NHMP stated.

NHMP officers also found a five-year-old who was lost and crying near a highway in Kandiaro, Sindh. After announcements at local mosque, the boy was reunited with his family.

In Kalar Kahar, NHMP Officer Ghulam Rasool stopped a bus headed from Mardan to Lahore after the NHMP received information through its helpline that Muhammad Bilal, 14, a resident of Mardan, had ran away from home. The teenager was handed over to his parents after completion of legal requirements, according to the NHMP release.

A bus driver informed NHMP officers Muhammad Azeem and Zahid Zulfiqar at the GT Road, Renala Khurd, that Malik Atiq, 17, from Pakpattan had left his home after a domestic dispute. The officers disembarked the teenager and took him into custody. He was later handed over to his father, the release stated.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 16^th, 2013.