Day: January 24, 2008

KARACHI: A youth killed his mother on suspicion of bad character in the limits of Bahadurabad Police Station on Wednesday.

As per report, deceased Halima (45), a resident of Katachiabadi Sherpao Colony was taken to the Liaquat National Hospital in critical condition but succumbed to her injures.

Accused Adnan, told the police that his father had divorced Halima due to her illicit relations with other men. “When 1 found my mother guilty, 1 killed her because this was a ‘’matter of honour for me,” he confessed.

The accused opened indiscriminate firing on his mother and managed to escape from the spot while the residents of the area shifted her to the hospital where succumbed to her injuries. Later, the police arrested accused Adnan from Awami Markaz and registered a case against him.

DOCTOR SHOT DEAD, 2 OTHERS WOUNDED

One person shot dead while two others sustained critical injuries over a domestic clash in the limits of Sohrab Goth Police Station on Wednesday.

Reportedly, Dr. Abdul Khabir (60) was present at his private clinic at Hassan Naumon Colony, jannat Gul Town when a man called him out. As soon as Khabir came outside along with his nephew Mateen and assistant Hashmatullah, the assailant opened fire injuring them seriously and escaped from the scene.

They were rushed to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital Khabir succumbed to his injuries. The police were unable to ascertain the cause behind the incident but registered a case against the absconding criminal.
Source: The Nation
Date:1/24/2008

PESHAWAR: A 15-year-old girl has lodged a first information report at the Faqirabad Police Station, alleging she had been raped by one Zahid, of Qazi Kelay, in July last, police said.

According to official sources, the class-VIII student of a local school, residing in Chan Agha Colony, said that Zahid- a friend of her brother, took her to his village in July last year, where he raped her. The accused, the girl alleged, threaten her not to tell anyone about the incident as he had filmed the rape that would be circulated among her relatives and classmates if she disclosed the matter.

The girl’s mother learnt about the incident when she got pregnant. The mother took her to the Faqirabad Police Station where a case was registered against Zahid.
Source: Daily Times
Date:1/24/2008

ISLAMABAD, Jan 23: The government on Wednesday took serious notice of trafficking of young girls to the Gulf States by organized groups of promoters under the guise of cultural delegations.

In a meeting, Federal Minister for Human Rights, Ansar Burney, said that these promoters hired young girls from all over the country to take them to Dubai in deceit for work in dramas, music shows and certain other household works. But these girls were sold for sexual purposes.

These groups of promoters were operating from almost all over the country but from Karachi and Lahore in particular, the Minister said adding that the victims of their ‘evil’ business were young girls.

According to Ansar Burney, many families lose girls but remained silent for fear of disgrace or life of their daughter.

Talking to Dawn on Wednesday, Mr Burney said, “We suspect that people involved in this heinous business have registered companies with fancy offices in big cities. They offer prosperous future to families of girls as young as 14-15 years and even as young as 10-11-year-old.”

The minister said that it was difficult to say how many young girls so far had been smuggled into Gulf States since the practice was going on for a very long time.

“However, we were able to bring back the dead body of a 17- year-old girl who was being kept in a make-shift jail in an apartment. She had been missing for the last three years. She died of suffocation after the apartment caught fire,” the minister said.

Mr Burney said that they were also working on another case of a young girl from Karachi gone missing in Dubai. She was taken to Dubai as a member of cultural delegation over seven months ago but had not returned.

Mr Burney said he in this regard met Minister of Culture, Skindar Hayat, and urged him to keep strict check on promoters. He said that the groups with good track record should be given licences of cultural delegations and that promoters be registered and prior approval of delegation member obtained from the culture ministry.

The minister said he also had asked Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Culture, and the FIA to submit detailed report regarding the ‘heinous’ crime.

Source: Dawn
Date:1/24/2008

PESHAWAR: A man allegedly raped a schoolgoing sister of his friend for seven months.

Zahid of Qazi Kalay also made video of the girl and threatened her if she reported the matter to her parents he would make the video public.

The family came to know about the abuse when the girl got pregnant. Police have registered a case on the complaint of the victim’s mother.
Source: Daily Times
Date:1/24/2008

PESHAWAR, Jan 23: The Peshawar High Court on Wednesday disposed of a case, taken up on suo motu, pertaining to the forced marriage of an underage girl after it was told that a jirga of elders was trying to resolve the matter.

A bench comprising Chief Justice Mohammad Raza Khan and Justice Syed Yahya Zahid Gillani observed that in case the girl was not satisfied with the arrangement made by the jirga she could move the court again.

The court had initiated suo motu proceedings in the case after a news item appeared in a section of the press, alleging that a resident of the Mohmand Agency had abducted the 14-year-old girl, Huma, and forced her to marry him. The report said the girl now lived with her parents but her husband was pressurising her to take her back to his home.

On a court notice, the girl appeared before the bench and stated that she was kidnapped and her marriage was arranged with a person named Asif. She said she was now living with her father and did not want to return to the home of Asif.

Her father, Nisar Khan, told the court that Asif was the nephew of his wife, who had arranged the marriage. He said he was against the marriage because Asif was believed to be of bad character. He said that now a jirga was trying to resolve the issue.

PETITION FILED: An independent candidate for the seat of PF-10 in Peshawar, Mohammad Ayaz Afridi, on Wednesday challenged in the Peshawar High Court the candidature of his rival candidate of the Pakistan People’s Party, Niaz Mohammad, accusing him of possessing a fake graduation degree.

Mr Afridi filed a writ petition in the court through Advocate Saleem Shah Hoti, praying that Niaz Mohammad should be disqualified from contesting the election. He said that till disposal of the petition the respondent should be restrained from contesting the polls.

The petitioner said Niaz Mohammad had produced a graduation degree of the University of Peshawar according to which he had cleared the examinations under Roll No. 3172.

He said that after the lapse of the deadline for filing objections he had come to know that the degree was forged and, therefore, he had filed an application before the Election Commission of Pakistan which had referred it to the provincial election commissioner.

He claimed that the returning officer for the constituency, Syed Fazal Wadood, had conducted an inquiry which had proved that the degree produced by Mr Niaz was forged. However, he said, the returning officer had declined to accept his application on the ground that he had no jurisdiction. Therefore, he said, he had approached the high court.
Source: Dawn
Date:1/24/2008