Cleopatra Posted December 29, 2012 Report Share Posted December 29, 2012 Very well done to Sajjad Karim, an MEP for North West England, who managed to do in just a few short weeks what the involved authorities failed to do in three years. That is to reunite a mother, Gemma Wilkinson, with her six year old daughter, Atiya, who was kidnapped by her father and taken to live in Pakistan on her third birthday. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter T Posted December 29, 2012 Report Share Posted December 29, 2012 Cleo, as an ignoramus in such matters, is the likelihood of a Pakistani father doing this high or low? I feel for the mothers and children in such cases as 1, the mother finds it virtually impossible to do anything, and 2, the children have no say in the matter and it must have a psychological effect on them for the rest of their lives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie Posted December 29, 2012 Report Share Posted December 29, 2012 Very well done to Sajjad Karim, an MEP for North West England, who managed to do in just a few short weeks what the involved authorities failed to do in three years. So why didn't he do it 3 years ago? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleopatra Posted December 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2012 Maybe he didn't know about it 3 years ago, maybe he was leaving it upto the proper authorities, how the hell should I know? The thing is he became involved and got it sorted pretty quickly. The father is in prison for refusing to say where Atiya was and the sentence was extended 3 times for still refusing to say where she was. Peter, the same thing as happened a few times but couldn't say if it is high or low not knowing how many mixed relarionships there are/were. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie Posted December 29, 2012 Report Share Posted December 29, 2012 Well I ask the question because he was reported as saying that "There's nothing I have done over the last four to five weeks that I couldn't have done three years ago". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleopatra Posted December 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2012 Yes I know he said that but he wasn't meaning himself. He was meaning the others charged with retreiving Atiya. Still doesn't mean he knew about it 3 years ago but he would have been given the details when he was made aware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted December 29, 2012 Report Share Posted December 29, 2012 In this story, aren't the interests of this little girl being overlooked? Okay her father abducted her, aged 3, and took her to Pakistan where she has lived for 3 of her formative years, presumably with the father's family, assimilating local culture and language. Does she now feel that she has been abducted again and placed into an alien environment with strangers? I'm not venturing an opinion on the rights and wrongs of the case, just wondering whether the best interests of the child have been considered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleopatra Posted December 30, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2012 I rather suspect that they have not been overlooked. She appears to be happy to be back with her mother and is settling down nicely and most likely feeling that she has been rescued rather than abducted again. No matter anyone's opinions, she was stolen from her mother and now she is back where she belongs, with her mother, and not in some strange country with relatives she did not previously know - strangers. Even having stolen her from her mother, and be in doubt, that is what he did - probably out of sheer spite - the father was not living with her in pakistan. He left her there and came back to the UK, where he has remained in prison for refusing to say where she was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleopatra Posted December 30, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2012 And it doesn't end there. It now seems that the father's family in Pakistan are preparing to take action to get Atiya back. Apparantly they were peed off because they were not allowed to see her at the airport. Looks like it is all going to get a biy messy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted December 30, 2012 Report Share Posted December 30, 2012 . No matter anyone's opinions, she was stolen from her mother and now she is back where she belongs, with her mother, In your opinion, which as you say yourself doesn't matter. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleopatra Posted December 30, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2012 Oh fhs you! go back upto your nest! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted December 30, 2012 Report Share Posted December 30, 2012 ..... where I belong? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleopatra Posted December 31, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2012 Exactly 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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