Sindh Women Development Minister Syeda Shehla Raza remarked that despite several requests made by the Sindh government, the Punjab police had been avoiding action against the suspected gang involved in elopement of underaged girls from Karachi because it had the backing of influential persons.
She also voice her suspicion that the criminal gang that had been luring the underage girls of Karachi into childhood marriage was involved in international human trafficking.
She said that her suspicion had become stronger after meeting a family from the C-1 area of Liaquatabad whose daughter had gone missing in 2002.
Lambasting the Punjab police, Shehla said that the sheer indifference showed by them in recovering the two underage girls from Karachi — Dua Zehra and Nimra Kazmi — had made her think that police official and IGP of the neighbouring province didn’t have their own daughters.
“Therefore, they didn’t feel any urgency at all to come to the rescue of the concerned parents from Karachi who wanted the immediate recovery of their minor daughters.”
The women development minister said the inaction of the Punjab Police in these cases had been beyond comprehension as YouTubers and Tiktokers had easily accessed the two missing underage girls. “Now after the passage of so many days, they have informed that one of the missing girls has gone to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.”
