[DAWN] The 26-year-old woman, who was allegedly detained in Jamia Hafsa
... the Islamic nunnery maintained by Lal Masjid....
, on Monday stated in a local court that she was ready to go home with her father.
Umme Hassan, the head of the seminary, also appeared in the court and said she had no objection if Uzma Qayyum wanted to go home.
On December 29, 2014, Sheikh Mohammad Qayyum filed an application with the human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
cell of the Supreme Court for the recovery of his daughter. Mr Qayyum alleged that his daughter were tossed into the calaboose in Jamia Hafsa.
He said his daughter took admission at Jamia Binaat-e-Ayesha, Rawalpindi, for a four-year religious course a few years ago. On June 16, 2014, Uzma went to the seminary but did not return home. Later, he came to know that she was in Jamia Hafsa.
Mr Qayyum alleged that her daughter had gone to Jamia Hafsa with Umme Hassan, the wife of Maulana Abdul Aziz
...nutball holy man who runs the Lal Masjid in the heart of Pakistain's capital. After instigating a rebellion against the state in 2007, he was caught trying to sneak away dressed in a burka. He rejects democracy as un-Islamic, which it probably is...
. He said Umme Hassan regularly visited Jamia Binaat-e-Ayesha and was in touch with his daughter since 2013. He said he used all the possible channels, including religious personalities and the police, to recover his daughter but to no avail. 
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