TOBA TEK SINGH: A Kashmiri woman allegedly kidnapped from Azad Kashmir after the 2005 earthquake and recovered by Toba Tek Singh police from a Pirmahal village on April 13, was handed over to a Islamabad’s Chak Shahzad police team on Tuesday on the order of Pirmahal area judicial magistrate Mudassar Maqsood. The police was headed by Sohawa Assistant Commissioner Fazayel Mudassar and Sub-Inspector Umer Hayat. They informed the court that abductee Asia Bibi was residing in an earthquake affectees camp in Islamabad’s Chak Shahzad police station area. Asia told police that Ghulam Mustafa Kamhar had kidnapped and brought her to Ahmadpur Sial in Jhang, where he kept her in his house for two years and later sold her to Allah Yar (now 75 years old), of Mauza Shahpur in Pirmahal tehsil, for Rs100,000. Recently, she uploaded a video online narrating her ordeals and was reunited with her family.
(Daily Dawn)
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