Father fears Misbah may run away again

LONDON—A Scottish schoolgirl who sparked an international custody fight by running away to Pakistan and was mandated to return to her mother in Britain “will run away again”, her father said in an interview published in The Daily Telegraph.
Lahore High Court ordered on Wednesday that Molly Campbell, 12, should be handed over to officials at the British High Commission in Islamabad within a week by her Pakistani father, Sajjad Ahmed Rana. “You heard the judge’s decision and that is that,” he told the newspaper.
“I am shocked. I don’t know what to do ... She (Molly) has gone to bed. For her it is the very worst scenario. She has said that she will run away again.” Her mother, Louise Campbell, filed the petition through a local lawyer after Molly’s father won a case in Pakistan in September barring the Pakistani government from repatriating the girl to Britain. Louise Campbell claimed the girl, whose apparent disappearance from school four months ago caused a worldwide alert, had been abducted and would be subjected to a forced Muslim marriage. But after she arrived in Pakistan Molly herself said she wanted to stay in Pakistan and denied she was under any pressure to marry.
“I told her we will have to face this in the Scottish courts if necessary ... To keep running away is not the answer as we will only end up back here again,” Rana was quoted by the Telegraph as saying.—Agencies