Ansar Burney seeks UN intervention

Regional Times (13 March 2006)
By Staff Reporter

KARACHI: Ansar Burney Trust International has reported the kidnapping of a 10-year old Pakistani girl from Karachi allegedly by an Afghan national, who has taken her to Afghanistan and is now demanding a ransom for her release. Hina alias Rani was kidnapped by Shahbaz khan who trafficked her to Afghanistan with the intention of collecting a ransom for her release.

Shahbaz Khan was an Afghan national who earlier ran a local shop in Karachi, Ansar Burney Trust said. Chairman of Trust, Ansar Burney said that Shahbaz Khan is just one of the Afghan traffickers in Pakistan. According to him on 10th of December 2004, a girl Hina alias Rani was missing from Manzoor Colony in Jamshed Town Karachi. Later, on 15th of December 2004, the father of the girl lodged an FIR no: 253/04 at Baluch Colony and accused Shahbaz Khan, an Afghan national who worked in a shop in the area, of the kidnapping of his daughter. The father of the girl received phone calls from the captors in Afghanistan demanding ransom for the release of Hina.

Shahbaz, who made the phone call, informed the father of the kidnapping of the girl and stated that she is now in Cutwaz, Maseet in Afghanistan. He rang from satellite phone no: 00 88 21688857577. Ansar Burney said that as the days go by, the condition of the parents of Hina is deteriorating more and more. He made a passionate appeal to the President Gen. Perez Musharraf, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, US President Bush and to the leaders of European countries and international NGO's to help search, recover and repatriate the girl and other such trafficked victims.

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