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AI and Facial Recognition Reunite Pakistani Woman With Family After 17 Years

A Safe City Project specialist used Edhi-supplied photos to match her to a 2008 Islamabad missing-person report through facial recognition.

Overview

  • Kiran, lost at age 10 in Islamabad in 2008, had lived for years at the Abdul Sattar Edhi shelter home in Karachi.
  • Cybersecurity expert Nabeel Ahmed traced her relatives by applying facial recognition and AI tracking tools to historical police records.
  • Officials contacted her father, Abdul Majeed, a tailor, who traveled to Karachi to bring his daughter home.
  • The Edhi Foundation reports she is the fifth girl from its shelter reunited with family through cooperation with police and Safe City Projects.
  • Kiran expressed gratitude to Bilquis Edhi and said she was sad to leave the shelter family that raised her.