In a cruel twist of fate, a heartbroken father in Pakistan is reliving his worst nightmare—the abduction of his young daughter, Muskan Salman, at the hands of the very man who once stole her away and forced her into a false marriage.
For 15-year-old Muskan, freedom had been fleeting. After enduring months of torment, she had miraculously escaped from her captor, Arsalan Ali, in December 2024. Yet just as her family dared to believe they had reclaimed their daughter, their world was shattered again.
On February 18, as the Masih family visited their remote hometown in Sindh’s Badin District to mourn a relative, Ali struck once more. This time, there was no way for Muskan to escape.
Her father, Salman Masih, spoke through tears as he described the horror that awaited him upon returning from the funeral.
“When we reached home, my niece was crying, but Muskan was gone,” he recounted. “The little girl told us how two men stormed into our home, pointing guns, and took Muskan away. We were too late.”
The anguish in his voice was undeniable. The thought of his innocent daughter—already a survivor of forced conversion, of a sham marriage, of months in captivity—being ripped away yet again was unbearable.
But the pain did not end there. When Masih rushed to the police for help, he was met with cold indifference. The officers refused to register his complaint.
“It’s been over 10 days,” he said, his voice breaking. “I have no idea where my daughter is. The police won’t do anything. And I fear… I fear that I may never see her again.”
Muskan’s nightmare began on March 11, 2024, when Ali, a man nearly twice her age, kidnapped her. She was forced to declare in court that she had converted to Islam and willingly married him. Her family knew the truth: their child was being held captive.
With the help of a Christian lawyer, Muskan managed to escape on December 15. She bravely stood before a court, denying the conversion, denying the marriage, and clinging to the hope that her suffering had ended.
It hadn’t.
Ali, her tormentor, never let go. He had been threatening the family, demanding that Muskan be returned to him. And now, amid their grief over a lost relative, they had lost their daughter again.
“I should never have taken her back to our hometown,” Masih lamented. “I thought we could slip in, pay our respects, and leave. But I was wrong.”
Now, as each agonizing day passes, Masih and his family wait, pray, and plead for justice. But their cries fall on deaf ears.
The police’s refusal to act has only deepened their despair. Muskan remains missing. Ali has disappeared. And the family’s greatest fear looms over them—what if they never get her back this time?
“We are desperate,” Masih said. “We are terrified. My daughter has been stolen from me again, and no one seems to care.”
His plea is clear: “We beg the authorities—do not let my daughter disappear forever. Do not let another innocent child be lost to this evil.”
But as the days into weeks, as the silence grows louder, one question remains: Will anyone listen before it’s too late?