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AI Match Reunites Pakistani Woman With Family 17 Years After She Went Missing

Facial recognition from Punjab's Safe City Project matched her to an old Islamabad missing-person report.

Overview

  • Kiran disappeared in Islamabad in 2008 at age 10 after leaving home to buy ice cream.
  • She was taken to an Edhi Centre and later grew up at the foundation’s Karachi shelter under Bilquis Edhi’s care.
  • Earlier this year, the Edhi Foundation shared recent photos and memories with cybersecurity specialist Nabeel Ahmed of Punjab’s Safe City Project, enabling the match.
  • An old police missing-person report was linked to her details, leading officials to contact her father, Abdul Majeed, who traveled to Karachi to bring her home.
  • The Edhi Foundation says this is the fifth family tracing from its shelter through collaborations with police and Safe City projects across Pakistan.