Day: May 2, 2012

Islamabad Police on Tuesday arrested 10 outlaws including three women drug pushers and recovered a total of 7.070 kilogram hashish, 31 bottles of wine, weapons and looted items from their possession, a police spokesman said.

According to details, the police team arrested four drug pushers including three women.

The nabbed persons are identified as Rubina Bibi, wife of Awal Sher, resident of Peshawar, Sonia, daughter of Nazir Masih, Aleena, daughter of Khalil Masih, residents of Lahore, Ameen Gul, resident of Peshawar and a total of 7.070 kilogram hashish have been recovered from them.

Golra police also arrested an accused Zulfiqar Ali during special checking and recovered one bottle of wine from his car (LEB-2307).

In another incident three persons were arrested and 30 wine bottles, two 30 bore pistols, two 12 bore guns were recovered.

ASI Ghulam Rasool from Industrial area police arrested a thief Nadeem Abbass and recovered stolen items worth Rs 100,000 from him.

ASI Nur Elahi from Ramna police recovered a tempered car (LWk-1821) from an accused Yousuf while ASI Arif Hussain from Sabzi Mandi police also recovered a tempered van (Swabi C-1197) from an accused Johar Ali.

Business Recorder

BAHAWALPUR – A four-year-old minor girl was raped by her teenage relative when her parents were not present at house in Mauza Qadir Bakhsh, Musafir Khana, some 10-km away from here on Tuesday.

According to detail, Fazal Ahmed, father of four-year-old Iqra informed that he had gone to market for buying foodstuffs while his wife was in fields for wheat harvesting when the incident happened. He that his daughters – 4-year-old Iqra and 6-year-old Kiran were alone at house and when he return home he saw Iqra was crying loudly besides he spotted blood on her clothes. “I got worried and rushed her to nearby Musafir Khana Health Centre where doctor called in the police and told me that your daughter has been raped,” he described.

He added that his neighbour Arshad told him that he saw his relative namely Shimran fleeing his house. Later, he called his wife and informed her about the incident.

Shamim Mai, mother of the girl told that Shimran had committed the heinous crime and she would never forgave him. Meanwhile, Musafir Khna Health Centre In-Charge Dr Rashida told this scribe that the condition of the girl was stable. She pointed out that they had sought expert opinion about the condition of the victim and expressed her hope that the report would be received by Wednesday (today).Meanwhile, when contacted, the Musafir Khana Police Station Investigation Officer told that the police arrested Shimran and FIR 132/12-376 PPC had been registered against him. He also suggested the age of the offender would be around 13 years.

Similarly, Musafir Khana Police Station House Officer Noor Nawaz told The Nation that the minor had been raped which was also confirmed by the doctor. He said that the girl was under treatment at the health centre and her condition was stable now.

The Nation

…EVERY year, hundreds of women from all strata of society face untold suffering … and often death from trauma and physical torture simply because they fail to fulfil purported dowry obligations. A recent case … is that of Yasmin Nuri … who allegedly died of trauma after tolerating a series of abuses from her in-laws for failing to bring dowry. Incidents like this are not uncommon but what horrifies is that the physical assaults on her continued even when she was pregnant and after she gave birth to a baby girl. Nuri’s case not only underscores the overall helplessness of women — irrespective of class — in society, but also illustrates that despite so much change, the degrading of women during marriage in relation to material gifts has seen little improvement. The problem is that no matter how much we talk of women empowerment … the reforms have left the putrid core intact.

Sadly, the blame also lies on women … because in Nuri’s incident — and for hundreds of other women — persecution after marriage is often conducted by several members of the husband’s family who are women. The message here is simple; unless women take a stand against violence against their own gender the torment will not end…. Obviously, all the counselling and the pro-women activism are not delivering. But that is not shocking because the change has to come from within the family where mothers and fathers must teach children about human rights and not about greed and the superiority of … males…. — (May 1)

Dawn