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| A court in Pakistan has granted a temporary protection order in the case of 12-year-old Misbah Rana. | A court in Pakistan has granted a temporary protection order in the case of 12-year-old Misbah Rana. |
| Misbah, known to her mother as Molly Campbell, went missing from her home in Lewis in the Western Isles to stay with her father in Lahore. | Misbah, known to her mother as Molly Campbell, went missing from her home in Lewis in the Western Isles to stay with her father in Lahore. |
| Her father was seeking to block any attempt to have her returned to the UK. | Her father was seeking to block any attempt to have her returned to the UK. |
| A judge made the two-day protection order because Misbah's lawyer feared the police would try to repatriate her to the UK. | A judge made the two-day protection order because Misbah's lawyer feared the police would try to repatriate her to the UK. |
| The 12-year-old went missing from her mother's home in the Hebridean island of Lewis on 25 August. | The 12-year-old went missing from her mother's home in the Hebridean island of Lewis on 25 August. |
| Misbah made it clear she had travelled voluntarily to Pakistan and that she wants to remain there with her father, brothers and sister. | Misbah made it clear she had travelled voluntarily to Pakistan and that she wants to remain there with her father, brothers and sister. |
| At the weekend temporary custody was granted to her father, Sajad Rana, by a Lahore court after the schoolgirl signed a statement saying she arrived in Pakistan under her own free will. | |
| Judicial protocol | |
| The custody case will continue on Friday. | |
| There is a judicial agreement, signed in 2003, between the UK and Pakistan on how such custody disputes should be settled. | |
| However, John Fotheringham, a specialist child and family lawyer in Edinburgh, told BBC Radio Scotland that this case may test the protocol. | |
| He said: "What the protocol says is that it is the court of the child's habitual residence that shall decide where the child shall live rather than the country to which the child has been taken. | |
| "The protocol does not have any statutory authority. It is a judicial protocol and this case may be the one that tests it." | |
| Mr Fotheringham added: "There is no problem at all with the court in Pakistan having made a temporary order, which is analogous to an interdict, to stop the child being taken away over the next 48 hours." |