Celebrating death: Men dance around bodies after shooting 3 relatives
A man shot and killed his sister, niece and another relative and began dancing around the dead bodies in the limits of Police Station Langrana on Thursday evening.
According to eyewitnesses, the accused, Aqil dragged the three bodies outside to the street where he and his three accomplices began dancing around them and hurling abused at the deceased. “They were spitting at the bodies and congratulating themselves over having killed the women because they had rejected their demands,” said an eyewitness Mazhar.
According to locals in the area, Chak No.211-JB resident Mukhtar Bibi’s daughter Farhat Bibi had married her brother Aqil’s son Allah Raza seven years ago. Farhat Bibi has a six-year-old daughter Samreen, who was injured by her father. “Farhat came back to her mother fearing that her husband would kill her. She said that he beat her viciously and had pushed her daughter down the stairs and she had cut her head open,” a neighbour Babar told police. Accused Aqil repeatedly asked his sister Mukhtar Bibi to send his son’s wife back. “He said that she belonged to them and that if she didn’t send her back she would be punished,” Babar said.
Aqil admitted that he killed the women and celebrated their death. “My sister tried to set conditions for her girl’s return and she had no right to do so. Farhat was married and my son can do whatever he wants with her,” he told police.
Mukhtat Bibi refused to send her daughter and grand daughter back home unless her nephew Allah Raza promised to treat them well and never to beat them again. “They refused to agree to any conditions and threatened them instead,” Babar said.
On Tuesday night, Aqil along with three other accomplices Adial, Ulfat and Umar Hayat stormed into his sister Mukhtar Bibi’s house and demanded that she turn over her daughter to him. “He said he would take them home dead or alive but she refused and then he began firing,” said a servant at the house.
Aqil and Mukhtar Bibi exchanged hot words and Aqil all suddenly began firing due to which Mukhtar Bibi and her youngest daughter Mafi died on the spot, while Mafi’s husband Muhammad Aslam sustained serious injuries and died a few hours later. Farat Bibi survived the encounter after she ran and took shelter in a locked room with her daughter. “The men dragged the bodies outside into the street and began dancing around them and spitting at the corpses. Then they began throwing rubbish on them and jeering,” said an eyewitness, who called police. One of Aqil’s accomplices kidnapped Farhat’s daughter Samarran and escaped from the scene. Police officials have arrested Aqil and Ulfat and have registered cases against them.
Langrana police officials said that the men showed no remorse. “He boasted that he should have chopped up the bodies in little pieces and fed them to his dogs,” said Station House Officer (SHO) Shahadat Malhi. Police officials have registered a case on the complaint of Farat Babi daughter of Muhammad Aslam against the accused Adial, Ulfat, Umar Hayat and Aqil. SHO Malhi said that the police had already recovered Samarran.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 8th, 2011.
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@Abhishek: Explain to everybody what you mean by that.
Do you want them to be even more brutal?
I am seriously confused about the relationship between these people. Are they all married to their blood relatives or am I reading it wrong?
Infidel: the fact is that most Muslims are cultural Muslims, raised with little actual education in Islam beyond learning how to read the Quran in Arabic but not understanding it. They have also chosen to live a life that does not reflect the values and morals outlined by Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him.
Most Muslims prefer to go with the flow and not challenge the unjust status quo in their societies. They prefer to live a life of non-controversy and not challenge abuse. In Pakistani culture in particular, there is so much emphasis on respecting elders (which is an Islamic principle) that they forget the other Islamic principles of being just and kind to women and children, which the Prophet also emphasized.
I have personally experienced this as someone of Pakistani background and it is sickening. I am not raising my children with corporal punishment, and the only reason that is so is because I have learned Islamic values and the example of the Prophet, who emphasized teaching children with gentleness and mercy, not physical abuse and insults.
@Meg: Brutality and sadistic violence, especially against women and children is a normal daily life of Pakistan. From all the lakhs of inmates, murderers are the most respected from all. When set free, such machos move in their streets as heroes with dozens of their fans(chamchas) surrounding them.................................You know what is the worst in the child`s development? When it is psychically and physically humiliated, abused and tortured in front of other people or in the class room. Do you know how much violence is an integral part of our language? mun par kas kar thappad marun ga, kaan pakro, naak se lakeereN nikalo, murgha bano and so on......humiliating innocent children and beating them is a daily routine in the families and schools. What do we expect then later from these grown-up WEEPING CHILDREN with such a disturbed learn process? Death penalty is only a supplement of this ceaseless violence and satisfies the sadistic egos of the masses.
Where is this society going with this kind of mentality ?
May Allah make u guys more pious muslim.
Why does Pakistan, as an Islamic nation, not punish animals like this with the death penalty? Islam forbids such abuse and murder. If Pakistan claims to be an Islamic country, then it needs to start standing up for women's rights as Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, did.
May these men be punished with death for what they have done and may the get what they deserve in the Next Life. They are lower than dogs.