Long live Zarteef Khan for supporting the cause of human rights. Let us hope his efforts are not in vain!
KARACHI: This is with reference to Salman Rashid’s article “Zarteef Afridi: Hero of Jamrud” (December 10).
There is nothing to celebrate in Pakistan. Zarteef Khan Afridi, a prominent human rights defender from Fata, was gunned down on December 8, in Khyber Agency. And Alamzeb Khattak, who stood by his 16-year-old sister — who was kidnapped and raped by a few persons, including three policemen — to ensure justice for her was later gunned down in Karak on December 11. In Pakistan, the struggle for human rights has a long way to go. Long live Zarteef Khan for supporting the cause of human rights. Let us hope his efforts are not in vain!
Arshad Mahmood
Published in The Express Tribune, December 13th, 2011.
