Day: June 29, 2012

“There was no proposal to marry the child to Hameed. # e jirga was convened to press the family to return Hameed’s wife,” Jirga members.

RAHIM YAR KHAN:
Rahim Yar Khan District Police Officer Sohail Zafar Chattha on Thursday directed Khanpur police to provide protection to a child, allegedly declared vani by a jirga, and her family.
He also directed the police to track down in a week a relative of the child, Muhammad Khalid, and a woman he allegedly eloped with.

The jirga was allegedly convened on the request of the woman’s husband, Muhammad Hameed, who was Khalid’s colleague at a security firm in Karachi, on June 14.
Khanpur Saddar police have yet to deploy any policemen at the family’s home for their protection. Investigation Officer Jam Faiz said they had not received any instruction from the office of the DPO. He said officials could be sent to the family’s house in Nawazabad as soon as such a directive was available.
On Thursday, the child and her mother returned to their village home after spending about 11 days in hiding in the Katcha area of Ehsanpur, close to Sadiqabad, after their appearance at the DPO’s office to request action against the jirga members and to ensure their security.

Her grandfather Muhammad Nawaz, also accompanying them at the scene, told the media that the family had fled the village since the jirga declared his grand-daughter vani and ordered her marriage with Hameed. He said the jirga had also told him to pay Rs200,000 to Hameed.

He said Hameed had also registered a kidnapping and sexual assault case against him and his step-brother Khalid to pressure him into giving in to the jirga decision. The case was filed on June 20. He said the jirga members had ransacked his house and stolen wheat during his absence.

Talking to The Express Tribune, the alleged jirga members – Sardar Zahoor, Muhammad Samad and Manzoor Ahmed – denied that there was any proposal to marry the child to Hameed. They said the jirga was convened to pressure the family into returning Hameed’s wife. They also rejected Nawaz’s allegation that they had stolen wheat from his house.

Hameed told the Tribune that Khalid and he were employed as guards in Karachi. He said Khalid had returned to the village a few days before him in the beginning of June and that he and his wife had eloped before his return to the village

Express Tribune

SUKKUR: A woman, whose husband had shaved off her head after beating her allegedly for not preparing meals on time, took shelter at the police station on Thursday.

Manzooran, from Ali Sher Jakhrani village said that her husband, Khan Mohammad Jakhrani got home Wednesday night and asked her to serve food immediately.

Manzooran, who was sleeping, immediately rushed to the kitchen but she took some time to prepare the meal which angered her husband, following which he allegedly started to beat her and tried to shave off her head. Manzooran said that she managed to escape and went to her brother’s house

Express Tribune

PESHAWAR – An allegedly kidnapped young girl, daughter of Allah Jan, resident of Kohat, has appealed to Chief Justice Peshawar High Court to take action against the accused Irfan and Javed, who had allegedly kidnapped and sexually abused her.

“I was abducted by Irfan and Javed and they sexually harassed me,” she blamed while talking to media persons here at press club on Thursday. She along with her three brothers and parents came to press club to inform the media about the incident happened with her. The 18-year-old girl said she was married and had come to her parents home in Shakar Dara, Kohat. She said someday she along with her younger brother Amir was going to her maternal grandmother’s house situated in the same village, the two accused brothers Irfan and Javed, sons of Saeedullah, stopped them in the way and picked up her in front of her brother. She said she had been taken to Punjab and then backed to the village, where they kept her for 15 days. She alleged that the concerned police officials were not registering FIR against the accused.

Father of the victim said when his son Amir informed him about the incident he rushed to police station to lodge FIR in order to get his daughter released, but neither the police officials registered FIR nor they tried to apprehend the abductors.

He alleged that after passage of three days SHO Samiullah lodged the fake FIR in which the SHO involved her will in escaping with the accused persons. “Then I moved the court and it helped recovered her.” She said the accused were threatening them to press them for reconciliation with them through the SHO, as she added the SHO was also terrorising them of dire consequences if they did not settle the matter with them. “We have to leave our village due to constant threats by the notorious abductors of the village.”

It is worth mentioning here that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Law Minister Arshad Abdullah also met the victim and assured her of inquiry in this regard and arrest the abductors. They, therefore, demanded of the provincial police chief to take stern action against the SHO for backing the involved persons and arrest them forthwith so that they could be provided with justice.

The Nation

NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: A father and other relatives have appealed to higher police authorities and civil society to provide protection to two minor girls who are to pay for the fault of their brother.

They observed a sit-in at the press club on Thursday against the “verdict” to give the girls in fine to brothers of another girl who married the minors’ brother of her own will.

Reportedly, Shah Khatoon married Shahid Chang brother of Begum, 6, and Koonj, 5, of her own will.

However, a wadera who is a retired police inspector announced a verdict wherein the two small girls were supposed to be given to brothers of Shah Khatoon as a fine or in local term `Sang Chatti Mai.’

The girls and their father Mohammad Essa Chang are residents of Bakhtiarpur village near Halani Police Station. The father of the girls said they appealed to police and civil society to protect the girls.

Head Munshi Ayaz said that they came to know about it but not about the decision.

Dawn

Karachi

The bullet-riddled bodies of a young couple were found in the Gulshan-e-Maymar police limits on Thursday.

The unidentified man and woman who appeared to be in their 20s were found dead near the Baba Qayyum Shah Bukhari Shrine situated in Khuda Ki Basti.

The area people informed the police who shifted the bodies to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for legal formalities.

The Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) Sohrab Goth Iftikhar Ahmed Lodhi told The News that the woman was wearing a veil while the man was wearing pants and shirt.

He said that the couple appeared to be Pakhtun and it seemed to be a case of Karo-Kari.

He said that the couple ran away from their native town and came to the city where they were killed by their relatives.

The News