Given up the UK to settle in Pakistan.. Mind you I used to love going to Pakistan myself as a kid. Legal wrangling lawyers suggest she should come back to UK to decide on custody, she says she wants to stay in Pak. What do yee think? Should she go back and let the courts decide on custody or should she remain with her dad instead?
Molly Campbell, the 12-year-old who disappeared with her father and sister to Pakistan behind her mother’s back, has told a British MP that she is happy in the Asian country and wants to stay there, reports this morning have suggested.
NI_MPU(‘middle’);According to BBC Radio 4 reports this morning, Mohammad Sarwar MP said that Molly had told him that she slipped away from school on the Scottish island of Lewis to fly to Pakistan with her father, Sajad Ahmed Rana, of her own free will. Now that she was there she was happy and wanted to stay.
When Molly’s mother originally reported her disappearance a week ago, it was assumed that the 12-year-old had been abducted, and fears were voiced that she might be made to submit to an arranged marriage.
When meeting Molly in Lahore, Mr Sarwar, the MP for Glasgow Central, advised the schoolgirl to ring her mother - her court-appointed legal guardian - in the Western Isles. Mother and daughter were this morning believed to have talked on the phone afterwards about the way forward.
Mr Sarwar said: "Molly has confirmed to me that she left the country of her own will, of her own accord, and she has spoken to her mother for 10 minutes this morning.
"There is no question of forced marriage and Molly has told her mother that. Molly and her mother have exchanged numbers, and her father has made it clear that if Molly wants to go back to the UK she can come home with me.
“But she does not want to go home. She and the family would love her mother to come here to Pakistan and stay with them.”
In a sign of the deep family divisions over Molly’s flight, her brother, Omar Rana, was this morning due to hold a press conference in Glasgow in which he was expected to reiterate that his sister is in Pakistan of her own free will.
Alasdair Morrison, the MSP for the Western Isles, who asked Mr Sarwar to become involved in the case because of his extensive contacts in Pakistan, told Times Online today however that - regardless of the will of the 12-year-old - she should return to this country because the law had been broken when she was removed from her legal guardian, her mother.
If she and her father wanted to challenge the custody rules which currently apply in her case then they need to go through the proper legal process, he added.
“At the end of the day, the law of the land has been broken, and you can never condone people breaking the law,” Mr Morrison said.
"She is a schoolgirl whose father broke the law when he removed her from her legal guardian and took her to the other side of the world.
“Mohammed Sarwar agreed to get involved and mediate in this case, and I understand one of the first things he said was for Molly to speak to her mother and try to sort this out.”
According to the BBC reports, Molly’s father had told Mr Sarwar that he intended to buy her a computer with internet access and a mobile telephone so she could stay in touch with the Scottish-based side of family.
A 12-year-old girl, who has been missing from her home in the Western Isles for a week, has said she was not forced to leave.
Molly Campbell told a media conference in Lahore, Pakistan that she left Scotland of her own free will.
Molly, who asked to be called by her Islamic name Misbah Iram Ahmed Rana, said she wanted to stay in Pakistan.
Her mother and legal guardian, Louise Campbell, had made an emotional appeal for the return of her daughter.
The youngster said she wanted to stay with her father.
She told the gathered media on Friday that she bought her own ticket to Pakistan.
I would like to stay here in Pakistan forever
She denied that she had been forced to leave home because her family in Lahore had made plans for her to undergo an arranged marriage.
The schoolgirl said: “It was my own choice, my sister came to see me and I asked her, can I go with her, because I was not allowed to see my family. I just went with my sister.”
Asked if she would like to stay in Pakistan or return to the UK, she said: “I would like to stay here in Pakistan forever. And my name isn’t Molly, it is Misbah.”
I think thats a family's very very personal matter, who we are to judge or comment. The custody case is in court, both parents are alive, the girl is mentally healthy. What the heck are we doing here?
Masha’Allaah Misbah looks like a pretty, young woman and she looks mature enough to make her own decisions.
She looks more than happy to me, have you seen that smile? I’m an expert at telling fake smiles from genuine ones. I’m sure legal stuff can be sorted out whilst she’s still in Pakistan, I hate the way goray demonise Muslims and Pakistanis with forced marriages and woman opression, they must get an ego boost out of exaggerating our backwardness.
I know quite a few incidents like this when Pakistani men come here when they’re young and naïve and marry these gorian and then come to senses later in life but I’m glad they have the sense to bring their children up according to Islamic values. I know this uncle who married a gori but his kids are proper hardcore Muslim and although they love their mum (who has now separated from their dad) they don’t follow her ways, the guy is an aalim and the girl masha allah ninjabi, their dad married a Paki woman but she was meannn to them like soteli mums are so he divorced her, he’s been the ones closest to them, even when he weren’t really into his culture he was the closest to them because their mum was at the pub 24/7 like you see them on East Enders and stuff.
Misbah claimed that she had also been banned from sending e-mails to her sister, and that her mother had warned her repeatedly that her father would marry her off if she ever moved to Pakistan.
Sajad Ahmed Rana had been described as “a pig” by relatives of Misbah’s mother, who claimed that he had stalked her outside her school after hiring private detectives to follow her movements.
This guy sounds like he probably farts in elevators too. It's funny, but the Western Paki feminists, and indeed some of the more recent Paki feminists (some of whom are on this forum), are probably partially responsible for contributing to these stereotypes. They should take a leaf out of Misbah's book - shame on them :)
I love how idiot pakis like you resort to name calling and insulting the way someone looks when it has absolutely NOTHING to do with the conversation or topic being discussed!
**IF **the father broke the law, he should get punished. Doesn’t matter if he’s Pakistani or white.
Also, you conveninently ignored where i said if she is happy in Pakistan, then good for her.
Seriously, what makes you so dumb? Is it your Indian background?
If he lives in UK, he should follow UK law. Makes sense don't it?
But then an idiot like you wouldn't understand that, i'm gonna stop before i get into a full argument with a donkey.
And by donkey, i mean you--if you didn't get that.
If you’re not beer bellied, and over weight, and obese and double chinned I take it back. It’s just the impression I have of feminists. Thank you for calling me a Paki
Okay but why should how I look matter? We’re talking about a custody battle, not a “am I ugly?”
Again, its idiots like you who don’t know what they are talking about, or even how to argue that resort to name calling and insulting the way someone looks. Doesn’t matter how I look..unfortunately, I’ve come across so much of this type of garbage on gupshup, that it seems normal and okay to do. But its not, it just shows how fcuked up and dumb you lot are.
And i take the paki comment back, you’re too dumb to be a paki
Seriously sara, u don't like Pakistan and Pakistanis fine, but in the future don't ever call urself one, be 1 of those people who think that we shud of never separated from india and call urself indian, and its Pakistani not paki.
Nope, not throwing a tantrum here.
Calling someone fat or ugly for saying something the slightest bit contradictory to what you said isn’t called arguing, its called being a kid.
