Day: July 5, 2012

LAHORE – A 35-year-old man stormed into his sister’s house situated in the Baghbanpura area on Wednesday afternoon, slaughtered her two minor daughters, wounded another and fled away, police and local residents said.

Police investigators said the killer has been arrested but the motive behind the gruesome killings were yet to be ascertained until late Wednesday night. According to the police, Kainaat, 16, Kiran, 6, and Kanwal, 4, daughters of Waseem, were present alone at their house when their maternal uncle, identified as Nasir, entered the house and attacked them. Local residents told the police that Nasir, said be a labourer, forced his entry into the house of his sister, locked all her three daughters into a room and repeatedly stabbed them.

The killer slaughtered Kiran, 6, and Kanwal, 4, and also stabbed their eldest sister Kainaat, who managed to flee from the house with multiple injuries. The killer fled away as the local residents intervened after the girls made hue and cry. Father and mother of the girls were not present at the house when the accused, also a drug addict, attacked the minor girls.

The Nation

Sir: According to a report in The Times of India, the border security forces of Pakistan and India, Pakistan Rangers and India’s Border Security Force (BSF), have agreed to have women platoon commanders for the daily flag-lowering ceremony held simultaneously by the two forces at the Attari-Wagah border.

The aim is to reduce tension between the two countries during the ceremony. Will not the tension and anger multiply to astronomical levels if women are posted instead of men? Food for thought.

Daily Time

Karachi: A girls youth hostel would be constructed at the Karachi University Campus.

This was stated by the Sindh Minister for Youth Affairs, Syed Faisal Ali Subzwari, here on Wednesday. He said that the 20-room facility would be completed in three months’ time at a cost of Rs. 25.25 million.

The project was initiated by the Sindh Department of Youth Affairs and the University of Karachi. The Vice-Chancellor of Karachi University, Prof. Dr. Muhammad Qaiser, Sindh secretary Youth Affairs, Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui, Prof. Dr. Shahana Urooj Kazmi, a senior faculty member of Karachi university, and Director youth Affairs Sindh, Khurshid Ali Shaikh, were also present on the occasion.

Daily Time

SUKKUR: An eight-year-old girl was found with a bullet wound on Tuesday by a man called Mohammad Kamran Jatoi in a house at Empire Road in Larkana. The girl, Kainat, the daughter of Gulab Bhutto, had gone to Kamran’s house to play with his sisters.

According to Kamran, the children took out a pistol from the cupboard which accidently went off, with a bullet going through Kainat’s stomach. She was rushed to Chandka hospital but succumbed to her injuries.

However, Kamran has been accused of attempting to sexually assault Kainat by the residents of the area. When she screamed for help and tried to run away, he shot her to prevent her from telling anyone.

They allege that when Kainat fell down Kamran took her back inside the house to conceal the crime and told the hospital and the police that it was an accident. On the other hand, Hubdar Jatoi, Kamran’s father, said that the pistol went off while Kamran was cleaning it.

The police visited the crime scene and found it strange that there were blood stains on the street outside the house but not inside it.

“If the girl was accidently killed in the house then why were the blood stains found on the street?” asked SHO Mohammad Ameen Khoso. He said that Kainat was shot on the street and then taken inside the house, but Kamran tells a different story.

A case was registered against Kamran on the complaint of Kainat’s father, Gulab Bhutto, and an investigation is under way.

Express Tribune