Comfortable with life in Pak, Molly Cambell in no mood to return to Scotland

Scottish schoolgirl Molly Campbell, who changed her name to Misbah Rana after returning to Pakistan to live with her Muslim father, has said that she no plans to return to the UK.

Lahore, Aug 27 : Scottish schoolgirl Molly Campbell, who changed her name to Misbah Rana after returning to Pakistan to live with her Muslim father, has said that she no plans to return to the UK.

"I have no regrets about leaving my life in Scotland and have no plans to return. My future lies in this country and I am going to stay here with my family and friends," Daily Times quoted Misbah, as saying to a Scotland daily. he 13-year-old became the subject of an international kidnap scare when she disappeared from her mother Louise Campbell's home in the Western Isles but soon she resurfaced in Pakistan stating that she wanted to stay with her father Sajad Rana.

Misbah is enrolled in Lahore's Wings Academic Institute and an imam (Muslim cleric) teaches her Quran at home, where she is staying with her other three elder brothers and sister-Omar, 21, Tahmina, 18, and Adam, 16.

After her parents divorced in 2001 in Glasgow, Misbah's father, Sajad, flew back to Lahore with all four children. She made occasional trips back to Scotland to visit her mother, but on one such visit her 38-year-old mother threatened to kill herself and she felt compelled to stay permanently, says Misbah.

The daily stated that after her mother moved to Stornoway with her new boyfriend Kenny Campbell, she became unhappy as the couple fought and Misbah used to become the target of racist abuse.

In Stornoway there were rows all the time. Here, Adam, Omar and I only argue over which television channel to watch. I prefer to watch cartoons and National Geographic, but Omar and Adam prefer sports channels," she said.Comfortable in her Pakistani attire of shalwar kameez, Misbah loves to buy beautiful clothes, bangles and shoes.

"I always ask my father to take me out shopping. In the evening he takes me out for ice cream and KFC," she said.She is still in touch with her mother over the phone and the Internet.

"My mother would sometimes try to discuss my father, but I always changed the subject. I do try to remember the good times but at the moment there is no plan to return to Scotland," she reiterated.

ANI