Dua Mangi returns home a week after being kidnapped in Karachi's DHA
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A week after she was kidnapped in Karachi, 20-year-old law student Dua Mangi returned home on Saturday, a statement issued by South Zone DIG Sharjeel Kharal's office confirmed.
The statement added that the investigation in the case is ongoing and police will soon provide further information.
Lawyer and activist Jibran Nasir welcomed Mangi's return, noting that her kidnappers were still at large.
"Two kidnappings [in] DHA in 6 months both times kidnappers weren't caught. The hunt for them must continue otherwise God forbid one of our family members could be the next victims," he tweeted.
Late on November 30, Mangi was kidnapped by armed men from Bukhari Commercial in Karachi's DHA while her friend Haris Fatah Soomro was shot at and wounded.
On Thursday, DIG Kharal had said: "It appears to be a case of kidnapping for ransom." He had said that it had been ascertained through investigation that the student was kidnapped for ransom, without elaborating. The DIG South was leading different teams of police probing the incident.
Police had said on Tuesday that they suspected a criminal gang was behind Mangi's abduction.
Members of the civil society had also staged a protest at the city's Teen Talwar roundabout. Mangi's sister had told media that the family was not satisfied with the police's performance as "despite the passage of three days, the police have failed to recover her".
Additional reporting by Imtiaz Ali
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Dec 07, 2019 02:46pm
Maybe the family quietly paid the ransom to free her? It happens.
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Dec 07, 2019 02:46pm
Sindh and Punjab police forces are entirely corrupt from top to bottom and in 90% cases mixed up with the criminals and crimes. I would strongly urge the provincial governments and the federal government to immediately dismiss all the police in these two provinces, including all officers even the useless IGs. Lease out the policing duties in both provinces to the Pakistan army directly, under their own officers. You will note a major and clear difference within months. Why not give it a try?
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Dec 07, 2019 02:47pm
Welcome back. Remember, East or West, home is the best.
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Dec 07, 2019 02:53pm
Our efficient and capable police made it possible!
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Dec 07, 2019 02:57pm
Good Job Civil Society and Common People for pressurising Police to deliver.
Unfortunately, not everybody has muscle and connections to pressurise, sad reality of Pakistani Society.
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Dec 07, 2019 03:13pm
How about ransom? Was it paid?
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Dec 07, 2019 03:14pm
Country is running on Auto. Good she came back, what could we have done had she not returned. Brain dead government and spineless society. We are happy as it ends well. Well at the end everyone is dead, it is how you lived what counts. Just breathing is not living, I suppose.
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Dec 07, 2019 03:22pm
Alhamdulillah
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Dec 07, 2019 04:13pm
Kidnappers seems Sons of elites, so they won’t be arrested, this is Pakistan.
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Dec 07, 2019 04:17pm
Police should be prepared with latest technology to catch culprits and stop such criminal acts in future. Someone may have noted the car license plate.
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Dec 07, 2019 04:41pm
Everybody knows who kidnapped her and why are kidnappers still free! Law applies to ordinary people in Pakistan.
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Dec 07, 2019 04:50pm
Very good news that she has returned home safely. However, it’s obvious that ransom was paid to secure her release!
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Dec 07, 2019 04:53pm
What does jibran have to do with this story?
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Dec 07, 2019 04:59pm
No action will be taken on culprits but the good news is that she was not forcefully married by a mullah....
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Dec 07, 2019 05:02pm
She should be punished for creating a drama and wasting public money.
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Dec 07, 2019 05:05pm
Was a ransom asked for the release.
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Dec 07, 2019 05:09pm
Like all the other issues are resolved already of this poor nation.
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Dec 07, 2019 05:16pm
Police seems to be involved in this transaction, no doubt about it.
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Dec 07, 2019 05:21pm
Need a lion heart to go after the kidnappers without any fear and qonsequenc and see if he can try again
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Dec 07, 2019 05:31pm
What a shame for Sindh Police. The victim returns home on their own while they didn't have the capability to retrieve her
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Dec 07, 2019 05:33pm
Crime rate climbing so high in DHA!
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Dec 07, 2019 05:41pm
Dua Mangi being a young woman must be traumatized by this kidnapping
ordeal.One must show great respect for her brave friend Haris Fatah Soomro
who tried hard to save her and got shot by the cowards. Karachi is no more
Karachi of yesteryears.
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Dec 07, 2019 05:47pm
If Pakistani investigation agencies want something then they can achieve it
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Dec 07, 2019 05:48pm
Why Hindu and Sikh Population has been in steady decilen in Pakistan and no where else in the word.
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Dec 07, 2019 05:55pm
Karachi Police can stop you and demand bribes
Refuse to cut an FIR till they are paid
Sit outside VIP houses and get fat
Harass law abiding citizens
Solving crimes......that's not their job.
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Dec 07, 2019 05:59pm
Political mafia could be behind this abduction, as their sources of income is cut down by government.
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Dec 07, 2019 06:06pm
No wonder people are fleeing to the West.
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Dec 07, 2019 06:10pm
What a strange statement showing concern for one's family. He should've stated that no one is safe and we need to outroot this evil.
Do I find the name of the poor girl odd or such names have become the norm these days in homeland?
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Dec 07, 2019 06:11pm
Fishy .... Police proven incompetent. Even if the girl has returned, police needs to find out the reason behind the crime scene and put the criminals behind bars!
Lets not put the issue under carpet
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Dec 07, 2019 06:28pm
Forcefully and thoroughly crack down on criminal gangs and individuals. They continue to harm Pakistani society and its world reputation.
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Dec 07, 2019 06:30pm
How much ransom paid?
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Dec 07, 2019 06:31pm
Some good news
happy to hear that she is back
I hope she is well and returns to her normal life to the extent that she can
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Dec 07, 2019 06:31pm
Thank god they did not kill her.
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Dec 07, 2019 06:38pm
The highest figure of kidnapping for ransom is found in Karachi Sindh since decades, the Sindh Govt is responsible, it always fails. Apparently this time again money has been paid. Thanks God the girl returns home safe. The Sindh Govt must be sent home safe, that’s it.
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Dec 07, 2019 06:38pm
Next time, please try not to go without an elder person.
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Dec 07, 2019 07:18pm
Naya Pakistan
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Dec 07, 2019 07:23pm
Please don’t consider it criminal kidnapping.Its clear cut family internal tussle which result in such kidnapping...
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Dec 07, 2019 07:31pm
Was ransom paid, if so bad reflection on police.
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Dec 07, 2019 07:46pm
Something is being covered up ...
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Dec 07, 2019 07:47pm
What investigation, ask the abductee. She can tell you everything.
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Dec 07, 2019 08:40pm
@Patel D, They have latest technology and know in advance before the crime happens.
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Dec 07, 2019 08:53pm
I have feeing the kidnapee was/is part of the plot to extract money and public attention.
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Dec 07, 2019 09:00pm
@Political Vapors Trail.,
Mr. Political Vapors Trail,
The waderas and so-called elites are involved with the support of the government of Sindh and the most corrupt regional political party PPP.
Very simple very easy.
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Dec 07, 2019 09:40pm
Whoever she is, good bless, and hope she is safe!
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Dec 07, 2019 10:09pm
@Dr. Salaria, Aamir Ahmad, What do you mean!
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Dec 07, 2019 10:39pm
In Pakistan such crime have full covert support otherwise nothing is natural accept road accidents.
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Dec 07, 2019 11:38pm
So young... So beautiful... So dramatic... I hope she recovers from the post
traumatic stress.
Gordon D. Walker
Canada
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Dec 08, 2019 12:21am
Dua Mangi's kidnapping case and after one week and her dramatical re-appreance has raised many questions.
People who were following up her case through print or electronic media are stunt that how come Dua Mangi was provided a safe passage to return home without firing a single bullet, without arrest of any one of the kidnappers and without paying any ransom?
On the other hand, Dua Mangi's friend Harris Fatah Soomro was shot at and lying wounded in a hospital and police did not confirmed as yet whether the injured had recorded or signed any statement as a witness of Dua Mangi's kidnapping.
This seems to be an open and shut mind boggling, a peculiar case, in which people are clue less as what was going on inside the whole episod in which CPLC was also got involved at a later stage.
Reports are taking rounds that Dua Mangi is released after paying heavy amount of ransom to kidnappers.
I urge IG Sindh to lift the curtain from Dua Mangi's kidnapping case through a press conference.
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Dec 08, 2019 01:20am
@BTS , really? Ok, then who were the kidnappers and what were their motives?
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Dec 08, 2019 04:16am
@Syed Anjum Ali, I agree 100%.
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Dec 08, 2019 07:07am
Take care of the kidnappers. Such people should pay heavily.
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Dec 08, 2019 08:07am
@Dr. Salaria, Aamir Ahmad, Too little too late.
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Dec 08, 2019 09:16am
Change the government in Sindh and the police will start producing better results.
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Dec 08, 2019 09:19am
Kidnap industry linked to political circles in full swing.
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Dec 08, 2019 11:09am
When criminals get punished in Pakistan?
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Dec 08, 2019 11:44am
welcome home and stay strong
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Dec 08, 2019 05:03pm
Alhamdolillah. I had prayed from my heart.
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Dec 08, 2019 10:13pm
@Political Vapors Trail.,
Mr. Political Vapors Trail,
You are absolutely right.
Sindh is being ruined by the most corrupt regional political party PPP for more than four decades.
Alas.
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