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| August 31, 2006 | Thursday | Sha'aban 6, 1427 |
Police looking for girl abducted from UK
ISLAMABAD, Aug 30: Pakistani and Scottish authorities on Wednesday said they were looking into the possible abduction of a 12-year-old girl from Scotland by her Pakistani father, who is believed to have flown her back.
The girl was last seen on Friday at a school in Stornoway, the principal town on Lewis in the Outer Hebrides Islands.
Police in the Scottish city of Inverness said Molly Campbell, also known as Misbah Iram Ahmed Rana, left Glasgow on an Emirates flight on Friday for Lahore along with her father and elder sister.
The Northern Constabulary, which is leading the investigation, said it believes the girl is likely in Lahore, where her father, Sajad Ahmed Rana, has a home. But a spokesman said she could also be in Karachi where relatives of the girl live.
Police in Scotland said the case could be a violation of the Child Abduction Act.
Pakistan Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam said: “We are aware that there has been a mother complain that her daughter has been brought to Pakistan. When we get some details from the British government of course our Ministry of Interior will take action to find the girl if she is in Pakistan.”
At a news conference on Tuesday, a tearful Louise Campbell pleaded for information on her daughter’s whereabouts.
In Glasgow, the office of British-Pakistani Labor lawmaker Mohammed Sarwar said he would meet the girl’s mother on Thursday and possibly contact Pakistani authorities to see if he can assist in the case.
Molly’s parents were married in Glasgow in 1984, and had two sons in addition to daughters Tahmina and Molly, before divorcing in 2001, police said.
After the marriage broke down, the children lived with their father and moved to Pakistan. All the children later returned to Britain to live with their mother, The Times newspaper quoted grandmother Violet Robertson as saying.—AP
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