Day: December 19, 2011

SHERGARH – Eight accused including a woman allegedly kidnapped a young girl from the suburban village Hussain Garh situated in the limits of Shergarh Police and one of the accused raped her.

Akhtar Ali, son of Faiz Ali, a resident of Hussain Garh, told that one Liaqat’s wife Razia Bibi used to visit their house. The other evening, she came and took his sister Shazia Bibi along with her for some ‘urgent work.’ He said that he got worried when his sister did not return after a considerable time. In the meanwhile, he came to know that his sister had been kidnapped at gunpoint by Muhammad Ishaq, Liaqat Ali, Liaqat’s wife Razia Bibi, Muhammad Amjad s/o Munshi Khan, a resident of Qila Sondha Singh and four other unidentified men. He said that the accused took her to Lahore. One day she got an opportunity, ran away from the house where she was confined and returned home.

He alleged that the accused had forcibly taken his sister to Lahore where accused Muhammad Ishaq raped her. On the complaint of Akhtar, the police have registered a case and started investigation.

Source: The Nation

JAMRUD- Suspected terrorists blew up a govt girls high school in Akaljan village of Jamrud in Khyber Agency on Sunday.

No casualties were reported, as the building was empty at the time of the attack.

Tribal sources said that the terrorists had placed explosives inside the school building, which went off in the wee hours on Sunday.

‘The blast was heard far off, meaning that high-grade explosives were used’, they added. ‘It completely destroyed the school building’, the sources said.

Terrorists have stepped up attacks on government run schools and at least 35 government schools have been destroyed in the Khyber Agency, four of them in Jamrud.

Source: The Nation

Javed Aziz Khan

PESHAWAR: A high-level inquiry committee headed by a deputy inspector general (DIG) of police has recommended registration of cases against the police officers of Karak for their failure to protect the brother of the young rape victim, Uzma Ayub, and allowing a procession to be staged against the judiciary.

The inquiry report stated: “The procession was allowed to be held without taking proper security measures that led to the controversy of chanting slogans against the judiciary and during which Uzma Ayub’s brother Alamzeb was killed in presence of the DSP, two SHOs and others. Therefore, it is recommended that proper cases may be registered in this regard.”

The report was submitted to the Peshawar High Court (PHC) by a high-level team headed by DIG (Investigation) Mohammad Idrees Khan.

The committee said it was generally believed that the Karak Police facilitated the killers of Alamzeb who escaped from the scene in the presence of the policemen on December 9.

The Peshawar High Court (PHC) had taken suo moto action in the assassination of Alamzeb near the District Courts premises in Karak on December 12 and directed the inspector general of police (IGP) to remove the district police officer and other concerned cops and probe the matter through senior officials.

The inquiry committee also recommended registration of a case against Sub-Inspector Muzaffar, who allegedly snatched the memory card of the cellular phone from the deceased, Alamzeb, when he was recording the VIP protocol given to Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Hakim Khan being produced in the court in the kidnapping and rape case of his sister. Alamzeb was killed moments after he recorded the film.

The committee has also recommended fixing of responsibility as to why no case was registered with reference to the prosecution. “Both the Karak Police and investigation team at the Central Police Office failed to properly investigate the FIR number 363/2010 and, therefore, the officers of both the departments are recommended to be proceeded against departmentally,” the committee recommended. The FIR was registered by Bilqis Jana in 2010 in the kidnapping of her daughter Uzma Ayub soon after the police raided her house to arrest her son who was wanted in an attempted murder case.

Uzma Ayub, after her reported escape from the custody of kidnappers almost one year after abduction, appeared before a local court and recorded a statement under Section 164 of the CrPC on September 19, 2011. The teenage girl stated that several persons including policemen had raped her during captivity.

The victim later told the PHC in October that she was kidnapped by Nazar Khan, Karim and Naseebullah son of Nazar Khan on October 9, 2010. She said three policemen including Station House Officers (SHOs) Pir Mohsin Shah and Ameer Khan and Sub-Inspector Hakeem Khan assisted the kidnappers in her abduction.

She stated in her statement under Section 164 of the CrPC that she was raped by several persons, including policemen, throughout the time she was kept hostage and now she is six-month pregnant.

After the cops were arrested and the case was being heard in the local court, unknown criminals killed her brother Alamzeb on the day when the family had planned to shift to Peshawar for security reasons. Alamzeb was killed near the court premises where over 200 relatives and friends of the arrested ASI, Hakim Khan, carried out a procession and allegedly chanted slogans against the judiciary.

There were reports that the uniformed cops were also among the protesters. However, the inquiry committee said that nothing had been proven regarding the participation of members of the Karak Police in the protest.

Source: News

MUSAKHAIL: A nomad shot his mother dead in Tehsil Rakhni of Barkhan district on Sunday. Police said a man forced his widowed mother to get married for the second time, which she refused, after which the son opened fire.

The bullet wound proved fatal and she died on the spot.The victim, identified as Bibi Kalan, was travelling to Dera Ghazi Khan from Loralai in the convoy of Kochi nomads. The convoy had stopped for a while in Rakhni.

Source: News

DERA GHAZI KHAN: A man chopped off nose and lips of his wife on suspicion of illicit relations in tribal area of Dera Ghazi Khan on Sunday.

According to family members of the woman, Qadir Bakhsh Baloch allegedly chopped off the nose and lips of his wife Salma at Darug village. Relatives of the victim brought the woman to the Taunsa Sharif Tehsil Headquarters Hospital for treatment, but she was referred to the Nishtar Hospital, Multan. The Border Military Police in-charge said an FIR had been lodged and raids were being conducted to arrest the accused.

Source: News