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Karachi teenager Dua Zehra FOUND (Alive & Married) after multiple days

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Child marriage in Pakistan is legally prohibited to an extent under the Child Marriage Restraint Act 1929 . Under the Act, the minimum age for marriage is 18 years for a male and 16 years for a female
In US, if guy and girl are same of age group (not more than 3 yrs apart). Law provide them defense against any prosecution.
 
In US, if guy and girl are same of age group (not more than 3 yrs apart). Law provide them defense against any prosecution.

Sindh province raised the age limit for marriage to 18 in 2014, but attempts in other provinces and at federal level to envoke this rule has been poor even in sindh
 
This girl was abducted, by seeing that the case has become prominent and police, investigative agencies, media is involved, the abductors created a fake story of marriage and blackmailed the girl to say what they want her to say, I think some big crime/human trafficking group is involved behind this, who could produce marriage documents and also have links in police, maybe they are even bigger than that.
Soon after this girl few other girls who were reported missing from karachi, who also were abducted, also came forward and were also shown to have been married, I think there is a same group behind this.
 
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Another kazmi.
Why all kazmi girls are running from home these days.


No you are acting a typical pathetic paedo mullah scumbag who is trying a find a excuse to defend his mullah brethren.
It's not necessary to be there ,it's open and shut case. Even a blind can tell a crime is committed by a molvi. But you are too shameless to acknowledge that.

Hun araam hai?
Learn to respect Aalims and work on your hatred if you're a Muslim because you might find a lot of like minded people today but definitely on the day of judgement this might cost you your good deeds. You should never generalize your hatred towards a group of people just because a few of them have done a wrong deed. We're humans afterall.
 
Ah well, then it looks like the case is solved.

Further attempts to say that girl has not been located, nikkahnama is false etc are just attempts to salvage some sort of 'pride' for the family.

I really wish this hadn't gone down this way. Unfortunate for the family involved.



So in this case the respondents are her family? They then knew about this 'affair'?
Actually, all things considered this is a not bad outcome, given the history of missing children and others, usually the outcomes are much more grim. But then again there could be more twists and turns in the unfolding drama.
 
Dua Zehra, who mysteriously went missing from Karachi over a week ago, is now married to Zaheer Ahmed- whom she found through PUBG three years ago. Dua who allegedly married out of her own will, says she is 18 as opposed to 14, like her parents claimed. Dua has filed a case against her father Mehdi Ali Kazmi and a cousin in a Lahore court.

In her case, Dua has accused her father of barging into her house in Lahore and trying to kidnap her with the help of her cousin- whom her father wanted her to marry. The couple were reportedly staying at Zaheer’s uncle’s home.

Dua’s father, in a press conference, denied her claims questioning how his daughter could be 18 years old when he had not even been married for 18 years. Mehdi Ali Kazmi said he was married on May 7, 2005 and he has Dua’s birth certificate with April 27, 2008 as her date of birth.

He demanded the authorities bring Dua back to them or shift her to a child protection centre. He also demanded a thorough investigation about what actually was the matter in this case.

“I request Sindh inspector general, and Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah to bring my daughter back. I fully trust the child protection bureau […] hand the girl over to them.

“My daughter is saying what she is told to say. […] The boy trapped my daughter through the in-game messaging system,” Kazmi said.

Moreover, Dua’s mother said that as a lawyer’s daughter she has aware enough to know that the marriage certificate is not legal.

“The nikahnama does not have the seal of the person who solemnised the marriage,” she said.

The person whose name is written on the marriage certificate has also refuted reports of solemnising the marriage, she added. Dua’s mother expressed concern that her daughter might have been blackmailed through a video.

 
I think that’s it !
No use of giving any more attention to the fake attention seeking/diverting drama by Irani agent Zafar abbas.

This girl has been found and is on parents radars which is enough.

Back to Imran Khan, And Showbaz genda nexus.
 
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Lahore court says 'missing' Karachi girl Dua Zehra free to go wherever she wants

April 26, 2022

Hours after Dua Zehra — the teenage girl who went missing from Karachi's Shah Faisal Colony last week — was recovered from Okara on Tuesday, a Lahore court turned down police's request to send her to Darul Aman and allowed her to go "wherever she wants".

Following her recovery, Dua was presented in the Model Town Court before Judicial Magistrate Tasawar Iqbal to record her statement.

The police requested the judge to send Dua to Darul Aman for her "security" while the girl asked for time before recording her statement.

In her statement, she said that she was "sane" and claimed to be 18, adding that she had come to Lahore from Karachi of her own "free will and no one had abducted me". She said she did not want to go to Darul Aman as she felt there was no danger to her life. Dua asked the judge to dismiss the police request.

Subsequently, the judge ordered that Dua be "allowed where ever she wanted to go and be set at liberty from the premises of the court as desired by her to go where ever she wants to". The court order, a copy of which is available with Dawn.com, said she was "sui juris" (of age) and could not be forced to go to Darul Aman against her will.

The Punjab police had earlier said to have recovered Dua along with Zaheer Ahmad — the man who is said to have contracted marriage with her. According to the Lahore police spokesperson, the two were taken to the Okara District Police Office where their statements were recorded. They would then be moved to Lahore in police protection.

"We have been in touch with the Karachi police and have informed them about the recent development," the spokesman added.

The chief of Karachi's Anti-Violent Crime Cell (AVCC), SSP Zubair Nazeer Shaikh, said that a team led by Inspector Saeed Thaheem was on its way to Lahore.

The senior police officer said Dua was expected to appear before a court in Lahore to record her statement.

On April 16, Dua's parents filed a first information report (FIR) alleging that their daughter had been kidnapped when she left the house to dispose some garbage. The incident had provoked an outcry, specially on social media, which had prompted authorities to take notice.

On Monday, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah revealed in a press conference that Dua's location had been traced but did not provide further details as he said the matter was “sensitive”.

Teenager says she married out of 'free will'​

Meanwhile, in a video statement earlier in the day, Dua said that she wasn't kidnapped and had married Zaheer out of "free will".

The 13-year-old girl said that she had left her house of her own accord. "I have married out of free will. No one forced me. I'm happy with my husband here. For God's sake, don't bother me," she stated.

While the minimum age for marriage under the Punjab Marriage Restraint Act is set at 16 for girls and 18 for boys, under the Sindh Child Marriages Restraint Act 2013, nobody below the age of 18 can contract a marriage in the province.

Dua claimed that her parents were forcing her to marry someone else and frequently "beat her up". "No one has kidnapped me. I have come here out of choice and didn't bring any valuables along with me," she said.

Dua added that her parents were lying about her age. "I am an adult. My age is 18 [years], not 14 [years]." However, official documents shown to media by her father revealed she will turn 14 on April 27 (tomorrow).

Meanwhile, on Tuesday, the girl and Zaheer approached the Lahore district and sessions court and filed a petition against Dua's father and cousin.

It stated that the respondents "forcibly entered her house [where she was living with Zaheer in Lahore]" on April 18 and tried to "kidnap" her.

"... Due to hue and cry, people of the locality gathered there and rescued me from the clutches of the respondents," the petition stated.

It added that her father and cousin ran away after extending "threats of dire circumstances to me and my husband".

Dua said in her application that the "respondents" had committed a "heinous offence" but the police wasn't recording her version. "Therefore, the accused may kindly be summoned and punished as per law," she added.

Dua forced to issue statement: father​

Dua Zehra's parents held a press conference on Tuesday.—DawnNewsTV

Dua Zehra's parents held a press conference on Tuesday.—DawnNewsTV


On the other hand, Dua's parents are adamant that their daughter had been kidnapped. At a press conference on Tuesday, her father said that "marrying an underage child comes under the section of kidnapping".

"On April 18, I was here in Karachi and was in contact with the police and security agencies. We never went anywhere," he said, referring to Dua's petition. "Had I known her location, I would have directly given it to the police."

"... They picked up our daughter and are now forcing her to issue these statements. I request everyone to bring the child to Karachi ... Don't hand her over to me. She should be sent to a child protection bureau and an investigation should be initiated there," he demanded.

Dua's father also showed her birth certificate at the press conference, according to which, her age was 13 years and 11 months. "It hasn't even been 18 years to my marriage. How's it possible that my daughter would be 18 years old?" he asked.

He added that his daughter was being "influenced" and demanded that the case be handed over to the Sindh police.

Police investigation​

Meanwhile, a senior officer of the Lahore police confirmed to Dawn that Zaheer contracted marriage with Dua and the two went underground after their nikahnama was uploaded on social media.

A copy of the nikahnama reached the Lahore police, showing that Zaheer Ahmad of Sher Shah Colony, Raiwind, Lahore, married Dua on April 17.

The marriage certificate showed the girl’s age as 18 and the boy’s age as 22. The Nikah ceremony was held in the Union Council/Town of Babu Sabu of Sherakot.

Nikah Khawan/Nikah Registrar Hafiz Ghulam Mustafa of Mozang Road, Lahore, performed the Nikah while two people, including Shabbir Ahmad of Sher Shah Colony and Asghar Ali of district Okara, signed as witnesses. According to the marriage certificate, Rs5,000 had been set as Haq Mehar which was paid at the time of the Nikah ceremony. The previous status of the newly married couple showed ‘unmarried’.

A few relatives of the groom attended the ceremony, but no one from the bride’s side was present, while she was listed as an “adult” on the nikahnama.

Sharing the results of initial investigations into the case, a Lahore police official said the couple had become friends on social media and were regularly speaking to each other for hours.

Quoting his colleague, serving in Karachi, who was also investigating the same case, the official said police found some important evidence from a home-based internet device of the girl, including her search history for a “marriage of choice”.

He said the girl might have been sent a proposal by the boy living in Lahore, prompting her to leave her parents’ home.

The police official said a team had raided the residence of the groom in Sher Shah Colony on Wednesday, but the couple had already left.

Police also approached the boy’s family members who refused to cooperate, he said, adding that the mobile phones of both of them were found switched off.

He said other persons of interest, including the Nikah Khawan and witnesses, had also disappeared to avoid arrest.

In reply a question, the police official said that under the Punjab Marriage Restraint Act, any adult who marries a child, defined as a boy under 18 years of age and a girl under 16, can be punished with imprisonment of up to six months and a fine of Rs50,000.

“The same punishment will apply to a Nikah Registrar who solemnises or conducts a marriage between two children, or a marriage of an adult with a child,” he added.

Additionally, the police official said, the parents or guardians of either party will be punished if they facilitate or organise the marriage of a minor (anyone under the age of 18) or a child.

“The parents and/or guardians will be punished with imprisonment of up to six months and a fine of Rs50,000,” he said.


Additional input by Imtiaz Ali
 

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