April 20, 2007	Friday	Rabi-us-Sani 02, 1428

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RAWALPINDI, April 19: Lahore High Court Rawalpindi Bench here on Wednesday ordered police to ensure appearance of two British national boys in the court on April 26.

The orders came after a bailiff appointed by the high court failed to recover the boys.

Mother of the boys, also a British national, has recently filed a petition with the LHC for the recovery and custody of Asil Masood, 5, and Adil Masood, 4, who were brought by their father, Tariq Masood from UK to his native village without any information to their mother after his relations with his 30-year- old wife Farzana Akhtar went sore.

The court ordered the SHO of the area police station to make it sure that the two minors are present in the court on April 26.

The bailiff in its report said when he accompanied by the mother of the minors visited the residence of Tariq on Tuesday they learnt from his brother Muhammad Akram that the boys along with their father had gone to Karachi and he assured the bailiff the boys would be produced before the court on the next hearing.

According to the petitioner, she got married with Tariq Masood in 2001 and they moved to UK as she was British national. Both lived happily there but their relations went soar in 2007, and Tariq Masood moved to Pakistan along with his children.

She also alleged in the petition that Mr Tariq had forcibly confined the boys at his residence in a village in Gujar Khan and had barred her from meeting her sons.

She said her in-laws had threatened that if she insisted on meeting them they would kill her and her two sons.

She said she was concerned about the safety of her sons.

Fearing that her husband would take her sons out of the country to avoid the decision of the court, Ms Farzana through her counsel Khurram Awan advocate on Thursday wrote to Interior Ministry to put the names of her sons on Exit Control List (ECL). She also invoked British High Commission to help her in finding the whereabouts of her minor boys.