Day: November 28, 2012

SUKKUR: The family of a missing 12-year-old girl staged two protest demonstrations in Ghotki on Tuesday to demand the arrest of kidnappers.

The relatives of the missing girl, a student of grade eight and a resident of Muhalla Hazara Shah in Mirpur Mathelo, protested in front of the press club and the office of the SSP in Ghotki. They demanded that the girl, who went missing 12 days ago, be recovered and the kidnappers arrested. Her family alleged that a landlord and head constable in Mirpur Mathelo were asking for Rs100,000 for her recovery but her father was not in the position to pay such a large amount.

The father, Muhammad Shaban Shaikh, had lodged an FIR in the Mirpur Mathelo police station against 10 men. He said that even though 12 days had passed but the police still hadn’t recovered his daughter or the kidnappers.

The parents of the girl threatened to set themselves on fire if their daughter was not immediately recovered. Ghotki SSP Irfan Baloch later called the parents in his office and assured them that the girl would be recovered. The protesters then dispersed.

Dawn

By: Mohammad Asghar

RAWALPINDI: The prayer leader of a mosque was arrested on the charge of trying to strangle his wife and chopping her ear, police and the victim’s family said on Tuesday.

The four-member family lived in a room on the premises of Girja Road mosque. Ms Tahira married the cleric eight years back and they had two children — Hajira, 5, and four-year-old Hassan Ali.

They said relations between the couple remained strained since their marriage. Ms Tahira owned a plot and of late her husband had been asking her to transfer it in his name. However, the wife refused. In a complaint with Saddar Bairooni police on Tuesday, Ms Tahira alleged: “In an attempt to murder me, my husband hanged me from the ceiling. Later, considering me dead he cut my ear.”

The victim said after regaining consciousness, she went to her brother’s house in Quaid-i-Azam Colony along with her children and sought police help. The police registered an attempt-to-murder case against the cleric and arrested him.

Mumtaz Bibi, the sister-in-law of the victim, added: “Tahira’s ear was stitched by doctors in a hospital. Marks of strangulation were also visible around her neck when she was taken to the hospital.”

Notables of the area tried to make a patch-up between the couple after the cleric did not turn up to lead the prayers on Tuesday. In his statement to the police, the cleric, however, said he had slapped his wife thrice, but denied the allegation that he had cut her ear.

However, Ms Mumtaz observed: “He is a cruel man and is giving a false statement to the police. He does not know how to treat a woman. He should be subjected to the same treatment he has subjected his wife to.”

When contacted, Imtiaz Ahmed, the younger brother of the torture victim, said his wife often used to ask Tahira about the ill-treatment at the hands of his husband. But Tahira always defended the cleric. But today she could not conceal the brutal torture by her husband.

He added: “As my brother-in-law was not earning enough to run the affairs of his family, I had bought a small piece of land and transferred it in the name of my sister.”

The cleric had set his eyes on the plot and forced his wife to transfer it in his name. When she refused, he tortured her, he added.

Dawn

By: Nabeel Anwar Dhakku

CHAKWAL: A father is alleged to have led a gang of 24 men of his clan to rape his daughter and divorced wife for defying his choice of the groom for their daughter. Police have registered a case against the father, Dilbar Khan, the clansmen of Jabbi Kotehra village in tehsil Talagang who went into hiding after committing the brutality.

The victims and police sources told Dawn on Tuesday that Parwana Bibi and her mother Durdana were picked up by Dilbar Khan on November 23. The enraged kidnappers took both the women to a house located a few kilometres away from their village where they subjected them to severe torture.

“I have been raped by my father Dilbar Khan while my cousins raped my mother,” she said while talking to Dawn on Tuesday.

Parwana Bibi and Durdana Jan are currently being treated at District Headquarters Hospital (DHQ) where they were still awaiting medical examination thanks to the doctor’s apathy. However, Tamman Police have registered a case of kidnapping, torture and rape against Dilbar Khan and 24 others.

The incident took place when Dilbar Khan tried to marry Parwana Bibi to his nephew Aslam Khan. The victim girl said she had been living with her mother ever since Dilbar Khan divorced his wife some six years ago.

Parwana rejected the proposal and told her father that she would marry the man of her mother’s choice. This enraged Dilbar Khan who forcibly married her to Aslam Khan some four months back. However before the marriage could be consumed, she married Mohammad Jamil with the consent of her mother she had been staying with.

Parwana Bibi said when Dilbar Khan and his relatives came to know about this new episode they managed to get a case of kidnapping registered against Mohammad Jamil and forced Parwana to give a statement against her husband.

“They threatened me that they will burn my mother alive and will kill me if I do not give a statement against my husband. Seeing mine and my mother’s life in danger I told the court in Talagang that I had been kidnapped by Mohammad Jamil,” she maintained. She said police arrested Mohammad Jamil and was sent to jail.

However, after a few days Parwana and her mother Durdana Jan found an opportunity to submit an application to the Tamman police in which they denied that she had been kidnapped by Mohammad Jamil and said she married him willingly.

Parwana said they also told the police that both were facing life threat. Police presented both the women in the court where Parwana gave the same statement she had given to the police. The court sent them to Shelter Home where they stayed a month.

A few days ago Mohammad Jamil was also released by the court and allowed to live with Parwana and his mother in-law. On November 23, Dilbar Khan along with his accomplices stormed the house of her daughter and kidnapped her and his erstwhile wife Durdana Jan.

After subjecting them to severe torture, Dilbar Khan again forced Parwana to change her statement to which she agreed. When they brought her to police station she got the courage told the tale of kidnapping and torture to the SHO.

The police raided the house of Dilbar Khan and recovered Durdana Jan. She was in a miserable condition. “We are waiting for medical report”, Investigation Officer Nazar Hussain told Dawn.

When the attention of Medical Superintendent of DHQ Dr. Alamgir Nawabi was drawn to the matter he said that he would look into the matter.

Dawn

SHEIKHUPURA: Nanrang Mandi police have arrested three people who allegedly raped five women in village Noon on Sunday.

Police said eight people were involved in the alleged rape case, of them three – Zaheer, Tassaduqu and Shahzad – had been arrested and remanded into custody. Police said the alleged rapists had taken the women into fields and raped them. This correspondent visited the police station and saw the three men wailing over their act.

Dawn