Islamabad High Court gives police two weeks to find missing girl

The Islamabad High Court on Tuesday ordered police to recover a girl who has been missing for nine months and to produce her before the court within two weeks.

The direction was reported by the Associated Press of Pakistan. Its report did not name the girl or her family, did not identify the police station or the investigating officer handling the case, and did not say which bench issued the order. No case number or copy of the written order was cited, and the agency did not say where the girl went missing from or what progress police had reported to the court.

The order sets a single deadline of two weeks for two tasks: tracing the girl and bringing her before the bench. It was not clear from the report whether the court fixed a further date for hearing.

The same agency reported separately on Monday on disappearances in Indian-administered Kashmir, saying at least 16,397 women and girls, including minors, have gone missing there since 2019 and that 4,271 of them remain untraced. APP said the figures came from a Right to Information request filed with the territory's Home Department, and described the region as Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Those figures concern a different territory and were not linked in the report to the Islamabad case.

APP's account of the high court proceedings was a single sentence, leaving the identity of the petitioner, the legal basis of the petition and the police's response in court unrecorded.