Day: June 14, 2011

By SADAQAT ALI

Claims he when he caught them together at his home on Friday night.

HARIPUR: A woman was allegedly paraded naked in the streets of Neelor Bala village on the instigation of a jirga that found her son guilty of rape.

Four armed men, who belonged to the same village as that of the ‘raped’ woman, allegedly disrobed the middle-aged woman before making her parade naked.

Police has confirmed the report and arrested three members of the jirga.

“Sadia* had become pregnant while her husband Shabbir* was away in Lahore. Upon returning, he enquired from her about the pregnancy and she accused Karim*, son of Shaheen*, and his friend Arshad* of having raped her,” Shaheen’s younger brother Muhammad Asif* told The Express Tribune.

On June 8, Shabbir took the matter to the village jirga, headed by Basheer Abbasi and Raqeeb. The jirga decided that Sadia be immediately divorced, and Karim and Arshad be punished for their crime.

Shabbir then took his wife to Haripur district court and forced her to file for divorce. When Shabbir returned home, he along with his three brothers Arsalan, Imran and Manzoor, reached Karim’s house and dragged his mother Shaheen on to the streets. They also beat the woman with rifle butts and then went to Arshad’s house and torched it.

Shaheen has left for Lahore, where her husband serves in a Pakistan Army unit.

Police sources said the matter was later brought to the notice of local police by some rights activists and they had registered a case against jirga members on a complaint by Shaheen’s father-in-law Khan*.

Meanwhile, local civil society organisations condemned the incident and offered the victims legal and moral support.

This is not an isolated incident. In January 2011, another woman, a resident of Basti Wah Deen village in Vehari, was gang-raped and stripped naked by landlords for refusing a marriage proposal.

Source: The Express Tribune

Date:6/14/2011

Court sends four accused on remand for four days.

SUKKUR: A woman was killed by four members of her family and was later buried in her house in Farash Morr village in Sukkur.

On Sunday morning, a neighbour informed the police that Imdad Ali Shaikh, his son Raza Muhammad and nephew Gul Muhammad beat Arzana and killed her. The police raided the house and arrested Imdad, his wife Rasheeda, daughter-in-law Shamul, and Gul Muhammad. Raza Muhammad is on the run. The family confessed to the crime and showed the place where they had buried Arzana.

The Abad police lodged a case against the four people arrested and Raza Muhammad, on the complaint of Arzana’s sister Sakina. She told the police that Arzana was married to Haji Mubarak five years ago and she had a son with him. Three years ago, her husband died and she came to live with her parents.

Sakina said their father is a greedy man, who wanted to marry Arzana off to an old man for money. When Arzana refused, the men in the house started beating her and eventually killed her.

On Monday, the first civil judge and judicial magistrate of Sukkur, Ghous Ali Shah, sent the four accused on a four-day remand.

Talking to The Express Tribune, Imdad repeatedly denied that he was trying to sell his daughter for money. He explained that, “she was a kari” or had besmirched the family honour and that is why Raza Muhammad killed her. His wife, Rasheeda, also corroborated this.

She claimed that Arzana was having an affair with someone in the village and that her stepson killed her for “ghairat” [honour].

The investigating officer said that the court has yet to appoint a magistrate to exhume Arzana’s body. He said it is likely to take a day or two.

Source: The Express Tribune

Date:6/14/2011

BUREWALA – A youth allegedly shot dead his step-mother and two step-sisters over a property row here late the other night.

Abdul Rashid, a resident of Chak 124/EB contracted his first marriage with Bashiran Bibi. He later contracted his second marriage with Razia Bibi, the widow of his brother Bashir Ahmad, in 1993. Razia Bibi was mother four daughters who had inherited 9 acres of agricultural land from their father.

Abdul Rashid sons from his first wife wanted to get the property registered in their names but Razia Bibi was not willing. Taking advantage of the absence of his father, Ismail entered the house of his step-mother Razia Bibi when she was asleep along with her two daughters the other night. Ismail opened indiscriminate firing, killing his step-mother Razia Bibi and two step-sisters Khalida and Abida on spot and fled away.

The police have arrested Ismail’s mother Bashiran Bibi and launched further investigation.

Source: The Nation

Date:6/14/2011

NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: Six men tortured a woman, cut her hair and injured her here over a land dispute in the jurisdiction of Bhiria Road Police Station on Monday.

According to police, a woman, Zainab Lashari, was going to her house after working in the field when she reached her village, six culprits, who were her relatives, cut her hair and after torturing her opened fire as a result of which she sustained injuries. Lashari was rushed to Taluka Hospital Bhiria city for first aid. Talking to The News, the victim said the men were threatening her. She demanded of the higher authorities to take action against the culprits. However, no case was registered till the filing of this report.

Source: The News

Date:6/14/2011

Karachi: A policeman who shot his wife dead in the Korangi Industrial Area on Monday is still at large.

Sub-Inspector Yousuf Narajo shot dead his wife, 30-year-old Sughra Bibi, mother of two, after an argument in his Bilal Colony residence.

Sughra’s mother Fameeda was the first to see her daughter’s body in a pool of blood. She informed the police who shifted the body to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for postmortem.

However, the police failed to arrest Narajo who is posted at the Cattle Colony police kiosk.

Sughra’s family members gathered outside the Karachi Press Club along with her body to demand the arrest of the suspected policeman.

Two die in road accidents: A young woman and a minor boy were killed in different mishaps on Monday.

Bilqees, 20, was crushed to death by a vehicle near Dawood Chowrangi in the Quaidabad police limits. She was crossing a road when the tragic incident happened.

Ten-year-old Islam Khan was killed when a truck ran over him in the Jackson police limits.

Meanwhile, Nawaz Khan, 35, died of electrocution while establishing an illegal connection from the KESC live wire in Mithardar police limits.

Source: The News

Date:6/14/2011