Girl kidnapped, taken to Afghanistan |
The Nation (13 March 2006) LARKANA - The internationally renowned anti human trafficking and human rights organisation - Ansar Burney Trust International - has reported the kidnapping of a 10 year old girl from Karachi by an Afghan national, who has taken her to Afghanistan and demanding now ransom for her release. Hina alias Rani (10) from Karachi was kidnapped by Shahbaz Khan, who trafficked her to Afghanistan with an intention to take ransom for her release. Shahbaz Khan was an Afghan national who had been running a local shop in Karachi. The Chairman of Ansar Burney Trust International, Ansar Burney said that Shahbaz was one of the growing numbers of such Afghan traffickers in Pakistan. "Afghanistan is a country runs by warlords and drug barons, who are now also un the business of trafficking of children and young girls. These criminal elements, many of them are in the Afghan government itself, are now killing a number of victims for the sale of their body organs in the international market." he said. According to Ansar Burney Trust International, on 10th of December 2004, a girl Hina was kidnapped from Manzoor Colony in Jamshed Town Karachi. On 15th of December 2004, the father of the girl lodged an FIR No: 253/04 at Baloch Colony, Police Station and accused Shahbaz Khan, who had been working in a shop in the area, of kidnapping of his daughter. Later, the father of the girl received phone calls from the captors in Afghanistan demanding ransom from the release of Hina. Press Back on your browser to Return
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