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FIR registered in Afghan envoy’s daughter’s abduction case: Sheikh Rashid

News Desk : 

Interior Minister, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Sunday said a First Information Report (FIR) registered in connection with the abduction case of the Afghan ambassador’s daughter in the federal capital. He said the taxi driver was also interrogated by police in this regard.

Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, the interior minister said: “I want to inform the international media that the police is investigating the report of the Afghan ambassador’s daughter issue … and we have registered a case on her request under [sections] 34 (common intent), 365 (kidnapping or abducting with intent secretly and wrongfully to confine person), 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) and 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation) of the PPC (Pakistan Penal Code).”

He said the interviews of the trio of taxi drivers whose cars the ambassador’s daughter had sat in have been recorded. Rashid said the first driver had driven the envoy’s daughter to Khadda Market, a second had then driven her to Rawalpindi, and a third had driven her from Daman-i-Koh.

The interior minister said that footage of her trip from Rawalpindi to Daman-i-Koh was missing and the matter was under investigation. He said the “riddle” would be solved by the evening and all aspects of the case would be unearthed.

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