HYDERABAD, April 15: Saleem Ahmed, uncle of US citizen of Pakistani origin Zunera Zahoor who has married Hyderabad resident Tahir Ahmed after developingfriendship with him on the internet , has decided to withdraw the case that he had lodged against Tahir and his family.

Recording his statement before the investigation police of the A-section police station, Latifabad, here on Wednesday night, he said he had lodged the case due to some misunderstanding against Tahir Ahmed and his family.

Saleem Ahmed, a resident of Sargodha, said that he had come to see his niece as he had been informed by the woman's father from the USA that she had gone to Hyderabad to meet Tahir Ahmed. He further said that Tahir's family had given him evasive replies, after which he had lodged the FIR.

He said he had gone to the US consulate where, despite his efforts, he could not meet Zunera Zahoor as, according to embassy officials, she had refused to meet him. According to the statement, Saleem Ahmed has come to know that her niece has married Tahir and has not been kidnapped. Quoting consulate officials, he told the police that Zunera had talked to her father in the USA.

A police official said that after approval from the SP investigations, the case would be submitted along with Saleem Ahmed's statement in the court of a civil judge and a judicial magistrate soon.

According to a family member of Tahir Ahmed, the family has been communicated a message from a local MQM zonal office that the adviser to the Sindh chief minister on home department, Aftab Ahmed Sheikh, will visit Tahir's family in Latifabad on Friday.