Kidnapped girl still untraceable

Published February 13, 2006

RAWALPINDI, Feb 12: A teenage girl, who was kidnapped along with her eight-year-old brother from Dhoke Chaudhrian on February 3, is yet to be recovered by the police, the family of the missing girl said.

Abbas Shah, 9, the brother of the missing girl Aqsa Batool, 13-1/2, was set free by the kidnappers on February 8, but his sister is yet to be released.

Aqsa and Abbas were going to school when two persons, Mohsin and Naveed, who had friendly relations with the family of Mukhtar Abbas, intercepted the two children and kidnapped them.

“I along with my sister was going to school when I found two masked men — who later turned out to be Mohsin and Naveed — waiting in a car. They dragged both of us inside and drove us to an undisclosed place. We were blindfolded,” the boy recalled. According to the boy, they were taken to some place situated at a 30-minute drive.

“Later on, I alone was driven again to some unknown place situated at a four-hour drive. I was separated from my sister whose fate is not known,” he said.—Staff Reporter

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