This week, two adolescent girls from Karachi who had been reported missing the previous week were found in Lahore. They planned to flee to South Korea to meet K-pop musical sensation BTS and ran away from their home.
Two teenage girls in Pakistan ran away from their homes to meet the K-pop musical sensation BTS, which feels like a scene from a movie.
According to a report from Dawn, the Pakistani police said on Tuesday (10 January) that the two girls, who were 13 and 14, were found in Lahore after being reported missing from Korangi, which is in the city of Karachi.
How did the police locate the adolescents? What details about the case have the police provided? Let us comprehend.
According to the police, two friends’ teenage daughters went “missing” last week, prompting their parents to file a complaint under Section 364-A of the Pakistan Penal Code (kidnapping or abducting a person under the age of fourteen) at Karachi’s Zaman Town police station on January 7.
Mohammed Junaid, the complainant, told the police that his 13-year-old daughter and he were at home when her friend arrived.
According to Dawn, when he returned to the house later, he was unable to locate the teenagers.
According to the father, his family informed him that the two girls went outside. Later, the friend’s father showed up looking for her as well.
The Pakistani daily reported that the two men searched for hours without finding the girls.
Junaid stated that he believed the girls were taken for an “ulterior motive” by unknown individuals and that he had suspicions of foul play.
The girls are found by Pakistani police, according to Korangi senior superintendent of police (SSP) Abraiz Ali Abbasi. One of the girls’ diaries was found during a search of her home, and it revealed that they planned to visit South Korea to meet K-pop band BTS.
Abbasi was quoted by CNN as saying, “From the diary we saw mentions of train schedules and that they had been planning to run away with another friend of theirs… who we then interviewed.”
According to the senior police official who spoke with Arab News, “a forensic examination of WhatsApp chat, their deleted browsing data, and handwritten diary confirms they had left homes for South Korea to join their favorite band.”
According to the SSP, the police began a thorough search for the girls after they were located in Lahore.
According to CNN, he stated, “We started tracking them aggressively and discovered they were in custody of the police in the city of Lahore where they had traveled by train.”
Dawn reported that Abbasi also stated that the couple wanted to bring their relative Naufil along, but he refused to join.
Arab News reported that the SSP asserted that the girls had prepared a written plan for traveling by train to Islamabad and had conducted online research on things to do in South Korea.
Abbasi said, “Interestingly, they had googled things like “what to avoid in South Korea” and “what kind of clothes would they need to wear” there.”
The SSP informed that arrangements have been coordinated with the Lahore Police to return the adolescents to Karachi.
According to CNN, he also advised parents to “monitor their children’s screen time” in a video statement so that they are aware of what their children are watching online.
What have the police from Railways said?
According to the Pakistan Railways Police, one of the patrolling constables discovered the girls on Monday afternoon in a “miserable condition.”
The girls were feigning anonymity in an effort to avoid being noticed. According to the constable who found them, they were dressed in a way that made them look like boys. A Railways Police spokesperson told Arab News.
The girls complained about their parents’ “indifferent attitude” during the initial investigation, according to the spokesperson, Kanwar Umair Sajid. They stated that they wanted to live on their own and lamented the parents’ indiscipline.
Culture journalist Rabia Mehmood told CNN, “It isn’t a surprise that two teenagers took this risk because ‘stans’ are capable of doing this for their idols.”
The journalist remarked, “But younger fans could engage openly and freely with each other about their favorites instead of taking such risks if we had more safe organized fan-girling spaces.”
Brief History of BTS Since its debut in 2013, BTS has grown to become one of the most well-known bands in the world. Its ARMY of fans can be found in many nations, including Pakistan.
