Islamabad: A seven-year-old boy, who went missing from his home in Pakistan's restive northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province two years ago, has been traced to Rajasthan following a social media post, a media report claimed.
Tufail Ismail was said to be in Rajasthan's Ganga Nagar district after his maternal uncle in Saudi Arabia saw a picture on social media shared by an Indian social worker, Sujewa Pereira nearly two months ago, the Dawn quoted the child's father Zafar Ali as saying.
Zafar also said the social worker had shared a contact number beneath the photo and requested social media users to share the post so the child could be reunited with his family and when Tufail's uncle dialled the number, he was told the missing boy was in police custody in Rajasthan's Ganga Nagar district.
However, DGP Rajasthan Manoj Bhatt and Sri Ganga Nagar SP Rahul Katakey denied having knowledge of any such child. Both of them told PTI that it might be a rumour.
The Dawn report, meanwhile, said Tufail went missing on June 6, 2014 while his family was shifting their home from Sardaryab to Tarnab in Charsadda district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa following which the family registered an FIR.
The report also said it had been 45 days since Zafar learned of his son's whereabouts but had been unable to bring him back to Pakistan and the family is now hoping the Pakistani government will help in their efforts to recover Tufail.
Tufail's parents appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his counterpart Nawaz Sharif to help bring their son home, the report said.
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