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| Court ruling in custody wrangle | |
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| A court hearing in Pakistan is due to determine the future of a 12-year-old girl from the Western Isles who fled home to stay with her father. | A court hearing in Pakistan is due to determine the future of a 12-year-old girl from the Western Isles who fled home to stay with her father. |
| Misbah Iram Ahmed Rana, who is known to her mother as Molly Campbell, sparked an investigation after she left her Stornoway home and flew to Lahore. | |
| The girl said she travelled voluntarily to be with her father. | The girl said she travelled voluntarily to be with her father. |
| He will ask the Pakistani court to block any attempt to have his daughter returned to the UK. | He will ask the Pakistani court to block any attempt to have his daughter returned to the UK. |
| The 12-year-old went missing from her mother's home in the Hebridean island of Lewis on 25 August. | The 12-year-old went missing from her mother's home in the Hebridean island of Lewis on 25 August. |
| Signed statement | Signed statement |
| She made it clear she had travelled voluntarily to Pakistan and that she wants to remain there with her father, brothers and sister. | She made it clear she had travelled voluntarily to Pakistan and that she wants to remain there with her father, brothers and sister. |
| At the weekend temporary custody was granted to her father, Sajad Ahmed Rana, by a Lahore court after the schoolgirl signed a statement saying she arrived in Pakistan under her own free will. | |
| Wednesday's hearing will examine guardianship under Pakistani law. | Wednesday's hearing will examine guardianship under Pakistani law. |
| It is unclear whether Louise Campbell, Misbah's mother and legal guardian, has travelled to Pakistan to attend the hearing. | |
| Although unwilling to comment on proceedings it seems likely her lawyers will be pushing for any decisions about Misbah's future to revert to the jurisdiction of the Scottish courts. |