PESHAWAR: A government of ficial, Irshad Ahmed, has criticised police for noncooperation to recover his daughter and demanded of the police high-ups to help arrest the abductors.

Speaking at a press conference at Peshawar Press Club on Wednesday, Mr Ahmed, an assistant director in accountant general office, said that his 18-year-old daughter, a student of Frontier College for Women, was on way to the college on Nov 21(Monday) when a group of armed men kidnapped her from the college van.

`The van driver informed us that my daughter was dragged out of the vehicle and kidnapped at gunpoint from the main Murshidabad Road in the jurisdiction of Bala Manri police station,` he said.

Mr Ahmed said that they reached the spot where rest of the girl students had taken shelter in a nearby house and his daughter was taken away in a car.

He alleged that some of his neighbours, including Jan Mohammad, Riaz, Yaseen and their sister, were involved in the kidnapping. He said that the family of Riaz had demanded engagement of his daughter with their son Yaseen, but he had refused to accept the request because his daughter had also opted to continue her studies.

Flanked by retired Col Anwar Khan, a practicing lawyer and maternal grandfather of the abducted student, Mr Ahmed said that following resistance of the van driver the kidnappers had also resorted to firing in the air.

`The van driver informed us about the incident and we lodged an FIR against the accused,` he said and added that they had lost trust in the police because they had failed to arrest the nominated persons.

He said that the accused family had shifted to Rawalpindi and was trying to pressurise the girl`s father for rapprochement. `We have asked the jirga members to return the girl first and then we will review their request for engagement under local traditions,` the lawyer said.PESHAWAR: A government of ficial, Irshad Ahmed, has criticised police for noncooperation to recover his daughter and demanded of the police high-ups to help arrest the abductors.

Speaking at a press conference at Peshawar Press Club on Wednesday, Mr Ahmed, an assistant director in accountant general office, said that his 18-year-old daughter, a student of Frontier College for Women, was on way to the college on Nov 21(Monday) when a group of armed men kidnapped her from the college van.

`The van driver informed us that my daughter was dragged out of the vehicle and kidnapped at gunpoint from the main Murshidabad Road in the jurisdiction of Bala Manri police station,` he said.

Mr Ahmed said that they reached the spot where rest of the girl students had taken shelter in a nearby house and his daughter was taken away in a car.

He alleged that some of his neighbours, including Jan Mohammad, Riaz, Yaseen and their sister, were involved in the kidnapping. He said that the family of Riaz had demanded engagement of his daughter with their son Yaseen, but he had refused to accept the request because his daughter had also opted to continue her studies.

Flanked by retired Col Anwar Khan, a practicing lawyer and maternal grandfather of the abducted student, Mr Ahmed said that following resistance of the van driver the kidnappers had also resorted to firing in the air.

`The van driver informed us about the incident and we lodged an FIR against the accused,` he said and added that they had lost trust in the police because they had failed to arrest the nominated persons.

He said that the accused family had shifted to Rawalpindi and was trying to pressurise the girl`s father for rapprochement. `We have asked the jirga members to return the girl first and then we will review their request for engagement under local traditions,` the lawyer said.