{"id":156254,"date":"2025-11-27T11:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T11:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/156254\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T11:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T11:41:12","slug":"ai-reunites-lost-pakistani-woman-with-family-kiran-went-missing-at-age-10-how-she-returned-home-after-17-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/156254\/","title":{"rendered":"AI reunites lost Pakistani woman with family: Kiran went missing at age 10 &#8211; how she returned home after 17 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1280720-2025-11-27t134718091.jpg\" alt=\"AI reunites lost Pakistani woman with family: Kiran went missing at age 10 - how she returned home after 17 years\" title=\".\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> A young Pakistani woman, missing for 17 years, has been reunited with her family with the help of facial recognition technology and AI.Kiran, now 27, went missing in 2008 when she stepped out to buy ice cream in her Islamabad neighbourhood and forgot her home address. \u201cI was lost and crying. A kind woman took me to the Edhi Centre in Islamabad as I couldn\u2019t remember anything,\u201d she said, news agency PTI reported.<\/p>\n<p>What Is Artificial Intelligence? Explained Simply With Real-Life Examples<\/p>\n<p>A few days later, Bilquis Edhi, wife of the late Abdul Sattar Edhi, founder of the Edhi Foundation, brought Kiran to the Karachi shelter home, where she grew up under Bilquis\u2019 care. Sabah Faisal Edhi, wife of the current chairperson Faisal Edhi, said repeated attempts to trace Kiran\u2019s parents through visits to Islamabad had failed.Earlier this year, the foundation contacted Nabeel Ahmed, a cybersecurity specialist with the Punjab Safe City Project. Using Kiran\u2019s recent photos and limited childhood details, Nabeel accessed a missing-person police report from 2008 and, with facial recognition and tracking software, successfully located her family.Kiran\u2019s father, Abdul Majeed, a tailor, travelled to Karachi to bring her home. \u201cWe searched for years, even published her photo in newspapers, but never found her. We had lost hope,\u201d he said.Kiran expressed mixed emotions on returning home. \u201cI am sad to leave my family members here. I will always be grateful to Bilquis apa and everyone at the shelter for taking such good care of me,\u201d she said.She is the fifth girl from the Edhi shelter whose family has been traced with the foundation now working closely with police and Safe City Projects across Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young Pakistani woman, missing for 17 years, has been reunited with her family with the help of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,17692,363,364,103470,103468,34915,103469,103472,111,139,69,103471,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-156254","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-technology","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-bilquis-edhi","13":"tag-edhi-foundation","14":"tag-facial-recognition","15":"tag-kiran-lost-family","16":"tag-missing-girl-reunion","17":"tag-new-zealand","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-safe-city-project","21":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}