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.