What happened: Police have been unable to locate a 14-year-old girl who went missing from outside her home in Karachi’s Golden Town district on April 16. Syed Mehdi Ali Kazmi, the girl’s father, told The Express Tribune that his daughter walked out to discard garbage around 12:30 p.m. but did not return. Details: Kazmi said that he assumed the girl would have gone over to her grandmother’s house across the street, “But when I went there to get her back around 1pm, the grandmother told me that Dua isn’t here.” Kazmi claims that the family looked for her throughout the neighbourhood, but she was nowhere to be seen, “We asked some labourers outside the house who were drilling a bore, but they maintained they had not seen the girl. I don’t understand how the girl came out of the house, threw the rubbish, and no one saw her?” Kazmi said that he filed a missing person report around 5 p.m., but police were not available due to political rallies, “When the cops arrived at 2 a.m., it was too late,” he said. The CCTV footage from the street has been examined, but the girl is not visible in any of them. Why it matters: The girl’s devastated mother has petitioned higher authorities to take immediate action to reclaim her daughter. “I fear that something similar like the Zainab case might happen with her. If anything happens to my daughter, I’m going to hold a sit-in outside the Chief Minister’s House.”