Voice of Gender News From Pakistan
PESHAWAR: A three-year-old girl, who was kidnapped last month, was recovered during an action on Tuesday. An official said one Afzal had lodged a case about the abduction of his three-year-old daughter last month. The official said the Rahman Baba Police Station staff recovered the girl and arrested the alleged kidnapper Ghufran.
Source: The News
Islamabad: In an episode of honour killing, a young man allegedly gunned down his sister on Tuesday in a village in Kirpa falling in the jurisdiction of Koral Police Station assuming that she had developed relations with a youth in the area, the police spokesman said.
While her family claimed that the victim was married against her will four months back and she had filed for divorce from her husband. On Tuesday afternoon when her divorce was finalised, her brother gunned her down after exchange of harsh words.
The accused, only brother of five sisters managed to escape from the scene, the police said.
The Koral police shifted the body to the hospital for post-mortem and started raiding different places to arrest the accused after registration of first information report.
Source: The News
KARACHI: The father of Dua Zehra on Tuesday moved a district and sessions court seeking replacement of the investigating officer of the case.
Syed Mehdi Ali Kazmi, through his lawyer, filed an application expressing reservations over the present IO and argued that apparently he was investigating the matter in an alleged biased manner.
The counsel argued that the applicant and his family members had no faith in the IO and pleaded to remove him from the investigation and appoint an honest and competent IO.
Meanwhile, a 10-member special medical board headed by principal of Dow Medical College Prof Dr Saba Sohail to ascertain the age of Dua Zehra has been notified.
The board is scheduled to hold its first meeting on Wednesday (today).
Source: Dawn
The Sindh Health Department on Tuesday formed a medical board to determine the age of teenage girl Dua Zehra – a resident of Karachi who had gone missing from the city some months ago and was later found to have got married in Punjab.
The formation of medical board comes after the Judicial Magistrate-East court in the hearing of alleged kidnapping of Dua Zehra ordered further investigation of the case and constitution of a medical board to determine the actual age of the girl.
Dua in previous court hearings said she is 18 years of age, and a medical test ordered by the Sindh High Court found she was 17. During the hearing today, the health department informed local court about the formation of a five-member medical board headed by Dow Medical College Principal Saba Sohail to find true age of Karachi teenage girl.
MS Services Hospital, Police surgeon and medical experts from Civil Hospital will be part of the medical board, the court told. MS Services Hospital also pleaded with the court to issue orders to present Dua Zehra on June 29 for medical checkup.
In previous hearing, the investigating officer (IO), had filed a challan before the judicial magistrate, urging the court to quash the FIR in Zehra case after categorizing the case as “C class”.
Meanwhile, Dua Zehra’s father on Tuesday filed petition in court for change of the investigation officer of the case. The counsel of Mehdi Kazmi has submitted a plea in the District and Sessions Court Karachi.
“Present investigation officer’s behaviour seems biased, complainant Mehdi Kazmi and the family have no trust over the IO,” according to the application. “We apprehend the investigation officer will not produce Dua Zehra for the check up to determine her age,” the complainant pleaded.
“We plead to the court for an order to change this investigation officer with a qualified officer,” the petition read