Voice of Gender News From Pakistan
QUETTA: Man shot dead his sister and her alleged paramour in the Bhati Mohalla of Osta Mohammad, police said.
Imtiaz Ahmed over suspension of illicit relations killed his sister and her alleged paramour identified as Raja, police official said adding the man confessed his crime.
Dead bodies were handed over to heirs.
Further investigation was underway.
Source: THE NEWS
KHAIRPUR: A man killed his wife in pretext of karo-kari here on Saturday.
Infuriated Bashir Ahmed opened fire on Rehana Lodhi,22, in his residence in Mohalla Panjhatti in the jurisdiction of A-section police station. Resultantly, she died on the spot. However, the accused surrendered to police at the police station along with the instrumental.
The A-section police lodged a murder case and took the body to a hospital for autopsy.
POSTING: The Sindh government has posted Zahid Ali Mahar as new taluka revenue officer in Thatta. The provincial government has issued a notification in this regard.
Source: THE NATION
PESHAWAR: Speakers at a function in the provincial capital on Saturday complained of widespread violence against women and called for better awareness of womenfolk for protection of their constitutional and legal rights.
Bytes for All (B4A), Pakistan, a human rights organisation, and Aware Girls, Peshawar, a women rights organisation, jointly organised the function under the ‘Take Back The Tech Campaign’, a campaign that connects the issue of violence against women and information and communications technology (ICT), to improve public awareness of violence against women and ways and means to fight it.
Civil society representatives, human rights activists, educationists, journalists and students showed up in large numbers. The main aim of the event was to create symbolic ‘Wall of Resistance’ by hand mapping to create public awareness of issues confronted by women and strategic use of ICTs by women and girls to combat violence against them in the society.
The event opened with an interactive session during which participants discussed all forms of gender-based violence, especially the one against women, and suggested ways and means to address it. They all expressed commitment to ending violence against women from the society.
The main highlight of the event was hand mapping on a large canvass by all participants, who mapped their hand impressions in different colours to create the ‘Wall of Resistance’, which will later be digitised and shared in the cyberspace via social media and international advocacy networks for awareness of violence against women.
Source: DAWN
LAHORE: A newly-married woman was shot at and killed by her paternal uncle for ‘honour’ in Bhaggatpura locality of Shadbagh on Saturday. The firing also caused injury to another girl.
Shadbagh police said the accused, not yet named, opened fire on his niece Robina who had returned home four months after she eloped with her lover and contracted marriage with him.
The firing also left Robina’s friend Chanda, who came to see her, injured. The suspect fled the scene while the injured were taken to Mayo Hospital where Robina succumbed to her wounds. Police shifted the body for autopsy and launched investigation.
MYSTERIOUS DEATH: A 20-year-old girl died at Jinnah Hospital shortly after she went unconscious at her employer’s house in Ahmad Housing Scheme, Hunjarwal, on Saturday.
Police said Shabana, who was maid at Muhammad Ali’s house, was brought to the hospital where paramedics suspected that the girl underwent abortion in the recent past.
The hospital staff alerted the police after the girl died due to some infection.
Police shifted the body for autopsy.
Hanjarwal Station House Officer Umer Rasheed said Shabana of Arifwala had been working as maid of Muhammad Ali for the last three years and she reportedly underwent abortion.
He said the girl’s family had been alerted and any police action would be subject to the family’s complaint.
Source: DAWN
By: Nisar Ahmad Khan
MANSEHRA: Local police on Saturday arrested a man over a girl’s rape and began raids in different areas of Mansehra for the arrest of three other accused.
The girl told police that Mohammad Bashir and his three associates kidnapped her from her house last week after spraying her with an intoxicant and took her to Hassan Abdal, where they raped her for six days.
She also accused the accused of stealing cash and valuables from her house.
The girl said she managed to flee from the custody of the accused and reached Haripur from where she telephoned her brother for rescue. Police later lodged the FIR and arrested Bashir, the main accused.
Investigation officer Inspector Mohammad Anwar told Dawn that medical report had confirmed the rape.He said after Bashir, three other accused would also be arrested within the next 24 hours.
Meanwhile, the girl’s mother told reporters here that she wished that dogs be set on the rapists for disgracing her daughter and the entire family.
Source: DAWN