KARACHI: Kidnapped girls

Published July 18, 2008

KARACHI, July 17: District and sessions judge (Central) Soofia Latif on Thursday directed the DIG Sindh and an SSP to recover two young girls allegedly kidnapped by their uncle, and produce the victims in court on Friday.

The court also asked the police officials to ensure raids at the suspected places identified by the parents of the kidnapped girls.

Earlier in the day, mother of the girls — one 11-year-old and the other 14-year-old — had filed an application to the court stating that her daughters had been kidnapped by their uncle Shah Tareen.

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