[1][5] Her medical report showed that she had some swelling in her brain due to blows to her head and she had torture marks on her body.
[2][6][7] On 17 July, the Pakistani Foreign Ministry confirmed that Selsela Alikhil had been assaulted and said the government was trying to apprehend the culprits,[8][9] but in an about-turn on 18 July,[10] the Pakistani interior minister, Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad, claimed that she was not kidnapped at all but that it was a conspiracy against Pakistan by the Indian intelligence agency.
"[12] In reaction to the incident, Afghanistan withdrew its ambassador and top diplomats from Pakistan's capital until all security threats to them were neutralized.
They expressed their displeasure over Pakistan's support for the Taliban and called for a permanent ceasefire in Afghanistan.
[16] In Copenhagen, Denmark, activists from the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) protested on 23 July in front of the Pakistan Embassy against the kidnapping of Selsela Alikhil and the alleged abduction of 11-year-old Ulus Yar Khan by the Pakistan intelligence agency.