The kidnapping of girls across Pakistan is rapidly increasing and most of them are either forced into prostitution or sold to gulf nations, Pak vernacular media reported. In the first three months of 2021, the number of a registered child missing cases is 233. Out of which, 74 are girls which makes it more than 31 per cent. Even though as per records many kidnapped children were recovered, a big number is still untraceable.
n a shocking incident, a 17-year-old girl was abducted by motorists as she was going for matric exams along with her brother in the Shad Bagh area of Lahore,
CCTV footage of the incident shows the girl travelling along with her brother in a motorbike when a vehicle intercepts them. The CCTV video shows four armed men disembarking from the four-wheeler, with one of them forcefully dragging the girl into their vehicle while the others slapping her brother.
The police while confirming the entire episode reportedly said that they have registered a case against the incident and started a search for the girl.
In a later development, the police arrested 13 people in the case including the former fiancé of the girl, his parents and other suspects who were nominated in the case. police shared that the suspects took the girl to Kasur after the abduction“The man who provided them with a pistol is also arrested,” they said adding the pistol has also been recovered.
Incidents of girls getting abducted have been reported previously and in one such incident, two schoolgirls were allegedly kidnapped from Ichhra area.
According to the family, the two girls identified as 11-year-old Ayesha and 12-year-old Fatima Gulzar went to school today, however, they did not return home. “One of them studies in grade five and the other in grade six at a school in Ichhra area,” the family said.
in Lahore sisters’ abduction case divulges the allegedly involved rickshaw driver drugged the group and knocked them unconscious before he took them to Sahiwal, The four sisters, Kinza irfan; Anam irfan; Ayesha; and Sumra, in said in a statement to police that they had Rs600 as they left home and they got into a rickshaw to get to Johar Town but the driver Qasim instead took them to Green Town to his residence.
A girl, who had gone missing during the chaos and confusion caused by the bomb blast in Karachi Saddar on Thursday night, is now believed to have been abducted, At a time when crimes against women in the country are increasing, irresponsible statements by the leaders are not helping the cause.
