Molly Campbell, 12, who wants to be known as Misbah Iram Rana and to live as a Muslim in Lahore, wept as she was told that she had to go back to live with her mother while her fate was decided by a Scottish court.

In traditional Muslim dress and a light blue headscarf, she looked visibly distressed as she was comforted by her sister and brothers outside the High Court in Lahore. “I did not expect this verdict,” she said. “I feel very angry and upset.”

The case, which has been portrayed as a clash between Islamic culture and the West, is to be heard in Scotland after Judge Saquib Nisar ruled that Molly’s father and sister had violated a Scottish court order by accompanying her to Pakistan in August. Louise Campbell, her mother, of Stornoway in the Isle of Lewis, was given interim custody by the Court of Session in Edinburgh last year.

The judge said: “Molly Campbell is given in the custody of her mother. Her father is directed to hand her over to some senior female officer of the British High Commission within seven days.”

Molly’s father, Sajad Ahmed Rana, 45, said that he was stunned by the decision. He would appeal and would take the case to the Pakistani Supreme Court. He said: “Misbah is very devastated, she was crying, she is very upset. She doesn’t want to go back to Scotland, she wants to stay in Pakistan.”

The prospect of a lengthy appeal process means that it could yet be several months before Molly is sent back to Britain.

Her disappearance from Stornoway in August led to an international hunt by police and the voicing of fears that she had been abducted by her father with the aim of marrying her off to a Muslim twice her age. However, days later she turned up in Lahore, where she denied suggestions of an arranged marriage and claimed that she had begged her father to take her away from the “hellhole” of Stornoway.

She appealed to her mother to allow her to stay with her father in Pakistan.

Molly claimed that she had been denied contact with her father and siblings, that she had been racially abused by locals on Lewis, and that her mother had not allowed her to be a Muslim.

According to court papers filed in Lahore, Mrs Campbell was an “apostate” from Islam who had turned her back on the religion after her marriage to Mr Rana collapsed.

She also drank alcohol, took drugs, argued and swore with her new partner, and suffered nervous breakdowns, the papers claimed. The house she lived in, testified Mr Rana, was an “un-Islamic environment which encouraged sexual promiscuity”.

However, speaking from Stornoway yesterday, Mrs Campbell, 38, said that she was “elated and excited” at the thought of seeing her daughter again, adding: “My immediate thoughts are a big hug, hug her and breathe her in. I would love to reassure her that the case is still going on and she gets to say her point of view. I just want to tell her that it is all going to be okay — it’s all going to work out.”

Mrs Campbell’s lawyer, Naheeda Mahboob Elahi, said that Molly had been “illegally” taken to Pakistan, adding: “This was a decision on whether Mr Rana had acted improperly by violating the court order made at the Court of Session in Scotland.”

Molly has claimed that where she lived with her mother was a “hellhole”. Tong is a collection of grubby-looking houses on each side of a main road near the town of Stornoway. It is about 5,000 miles from Lahore, but to Molly the distance will seem even further.

Since fleeing to Pakistan she has lived a privileged life in one of Lahore’s most affluent suburbs, where up to a dozen servants cater to her every need.

Her father has showered her with gifts. On her first night in Lahore he took Molly and two of her siblings to eat in one of the city’s finest restaurants. Her relatives say that she has blossomed in her new environment and has started to show a maturity beyond her years.

Her father’s villa is set in its own carefully tended gardens. By contrast, the cul-de-sac of 24 houses where Molly's mother lives is neglected and in one overgrown back garden a car has been left to rust away.

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