Misbah Rana has revealed she plans to launch a legal challenge in a bid to live temporarily with relatives in Glasgow instead of her mother in Lewis if she is forced to return to Scotland.
Yesterday her father Sajad Rana lodged a last-ditch appeal to the Supreme Court in Lahore, requesting that a ruling made last week which would see Misbah returned to the UK is overturned.
However, contingency plans are being made for her return to Scotland should the appeal fail, and Misbah, 12, has now hired her own solicitor to represent her interests here.
Her father has been ordered to turn her over to the British High Commission in Islamabad on Wednesday. The Supreme Court in Lahore should tell Rana tomorrow or on Tuesday at the latest if his appeal against the ruling has been successful.
While "hopeful" that the ruling will be in their favour, the family are making arrangements which would see Misbah's brothers and sister accompany her back to the UK and an immediate legal challenge lodged to allow her to live with an aunt and uncle in Glasgow rather than return to the Western Isles for the duration of the case.
Sajad Rana told the Sunday Herald that he may also travel with his daughter if she is forced to return to Scotland. "There is nothing stopping me from coming to Scotland with her," he said.
"I might well travel with the rest of the family. She will ask the authorities if she can stay somewhere else."
Rana, who owns a flat in Glasgow, may also ask the courts in Scotland to allow him temporary custody of his daughter until the case concludes.
Misbah said this weekend that she is "really upset because no-one is listening to me".
She added: "I was devastated when I heard the judge say that I had to go back to Scotland, it was really upsetting. I don't miss anything about Scotland.
I want to be here in Pakistan."
Misbah was collected from her school in Stornoway on August 25 and flew with her sister to Glasgow, then onwards to Pakistan, where her two older brothers already live with their father.
Louise Campbell, Misbah's mother, separated from Rana in 2000. She has demanded that Misbah is returned to her and her new partner as soon as possible.
When the courts in Pakistan ruled last week that Misbah's case should be heard in the Court of Session in Edinburgh she immediately threatened to run away. She said: "I don't want to live there. I want to stay with my family in Pakistan."
Rana told the Sunday Herald that his daughter is upset and anxious about the coming few days.
"Misbah is distraught by all this. She knows where she wants to be, she wants to be here.
"It is very upsetting as a father to see your child upset, she's been really down, very upset. She's only a child. All I can do is hope really."
Misbah's solicitor, Stirling-based Frazer McCready, confirmed to the Sunday Herald that he will be representing her at the Court of Session. He said yesterday: "We are waiting for the outcome of the appeal in Pakistan before taking our next step."
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