LAHORE: A teenage boy went missing in Lahore on Tuesday despite lofty claims by authorities of action against child kidnappings in the provincial capital and other parts of the province.
Amaan Qamar, 13, went out of his home in Samnabad on Tuesday evening, but has since been missing, family said. The relatives of the boy have lodged a missing complaint with local police.
Officials say efforts are being made to trace the boy.
A three-year-old girl was also found missing from Anarkali area on Monday. The girl, Jannat Hayat, had gone shopping with her father, police said.
A wave of anxiety has gripped the region following kidnapping of 600 children from Lahore and other parts of Punjab within a short span of time.
The Supreme Court (SC) is currently hearing a suo motu case with regard to surge in incidents of child kidnapping the province.
More than a dozen children were reported missing from Badami Baagh alone, in the past few months.
The police, meanwhile, maintain that not all of the missing children were kidnapped.
Earlier, Additional Inspector General (AIG) Shahzada Sultan, citing statistics, had said that during 2015 kidnapping cases of 1,134 children were registered in Punjab, of whom 1,093 were recovered.
"This year, 681 cases have been registered, while 640 children have already been recovered," he stated.
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