SHC orders to shift Dua Zahra to Karachi.

KARACHI -- The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday ordered the authorities to transfer Dua Zahra - the teenager who had mysteriously disappeared from Karachi in April but it was later reported that she had run away from home to marry 21-year-old Zaheer Ahmed - to Karachi while announcing the verdict in the high profile case.

The court had reserved its verdict earlier today on a plea filed by Dua Zahra's father Mehdi Kazmi, accusing the young man of kidnapping the girl from her house in Karachi's Alfalah neighbourhood.

A two-member bench of the SHC, headed by Justice Iqbal Kalhoro, announced the verdict.

At the outset of the hearing, Zaheer was produced before the court by the police. The SHC had summoned Zaheer to court through a notice.

During the hearing, Justice Kalhoro remarked that Dua Zahra must be brought to Karachi and the case will be heard here as she went missing from this city.

"There are shelter homes in Karachi as well where security arrangements will be made. There will be no threat to the girl in Karachi," the judge...