SAHIWAL: The Chichawatni police rescued two siblings on Friday from their captors who took them away for ‘honour’.

The police said the captors took Laiba Qayyum, 15, and Moazzam Qayyum, 12, to settle scores with their uncle who contracted love marriage with Manzoor Ahmed’s daughter.

DSP Rana Akmal said both children were recovered from Tulamba locality and handed over to their parents. The captors kept shifting the siblings from one place to another in the past 10 days.

The police also arrested Arshad whose car was rented for kidnapping Laiba and Moazzam from Block No 10, Chichawatni, on Dec 7 when they were returning home on a motorcycle with their elder brother Saaim after taking tuition.

An eyewitness said their motorcycle was intercepted by gunmen who kidnapped the two children in two cars. Saaim dodged kidnappers by hiding himself in a nearby department store at Gujar Chowk.

The Chichawatni City police registered a kidnap case against seven nominated and three unidentified people on the complaint of Qayyum.

Police nominated Muhammad Manzoor, Sakhawat, Asif, Shakeel, Bashir, Saqib and Sharafat Ali in the FIR.

Most of the kidnappers belonged to Toba Tek Singh.

The police said a few months back, Qayyum’s younger brother Naeem contracted love marriage with Manzoor’s daughter Ammara in a Toba court. Manzoor got registered her daughter’s kidnapping case against Naeem and Qayyum in Toba Take Singh. Manzoor was pressurising Qayyum and his family to return his daughter.

The matter could not be settled and in this background, Manzoor with nine people kidnapped his two children.

Published in Dawn, December 18th, 2021