PESHAWAR, July 7: A local court on Saturday allowed a Kyrgyz woman to meet her two minor sons daily at a police shelter and deferred verdict in the row between her and her Pakistani husband over the children’s custody.
Guardian and family judge Quratul Ain also gave permission for an interpreter to accompany Temirova Nurzhanal Osmonalyevna for the meeting with Ahmad Ali, 6, and Sudais Mohammad, 5, at Police Child Protection Centre, where the two are kept on the Peshawar High Court orders.
The boys don’t understand her mother’s language.
The court later fixed for July 11 the announcement of the verdict in the case.
Federal Investigation Agency had recovered the children from Mardan, where they were staying with their maternal aunt, on the high court orders on a writ petition filed by the Kyrgyz woman. Earlier, local police failed to trace them.
Following recovery of the two, the high court referred the case to the guardian judge on June 18 asking her to decide it within 45 days.
A two-member bench headed by Chief Justice Dost Mohammad Khan had ordered that the guardian judge might also pass an order for interim custody but keeping in view the peculiar circumstances of the case.
Ms Temirova said she married Pakistani national Shaukat Ali in Bishkek around seven years ago before giving birth to Ahmad Ali and Sudais Mohammad. She said relations between her and her husband later turned sour and there followed the escape of her husband to Pakistan in January 2011 along with the two boys.
She is represented by senior advocate sheikh Riazul Haq and Bushra Khan, while Usman Khan Turlandi appeared for Mr Shaukat.
The boys were produced before the court by Akber Ali and Inspector Rafique, representatives of PCPC. The judge took the two children to her chamber for ascertaining their opinion about the case.
The court was to announce verdict in the case on Saturday but the announcement was rescheduled to July 11.
The judge ordered police to keep the boys at PCPC until then besides ensuring provision of good diet and care to them.
Lawyer Bushra requested the court to allow an interpreter to accompany her client so that she could communicate with the children, who didn’t know Kyrgyz language.
The applicant claimed that the father of the boys had fraudulently moved them to Pakistan. He also claimed that her husband was wanted by Kyrgyz authorities in many cases of fraud and that the Kyrgyz government had also approached Interpol for help and cooperation for his arrest.