Woman tortured for reporting alleged harassment

Taxi driver shoots passengers for bickering over fare

ISLAMABAD: A woman was brutally beaten up and her clothes torn for complaining against a man who was harassing her on mobile phone.

Syed Zaheer filed a report at the Bhara Kahu police station on Friday that his wife had taken him into confidence that Azhar was harassing her on phone.

However, Zaheer told the police, when he asked Azhar to stop harassing his wife, he threatened him of dire consequences. Later, when Zaheer’s wife was alone at home, Azhar barged in along with 10 other people. They slapped, punched and kicked the woman and humiliated her by tearing off her clothes and dragging her around.

The suspects left the house threatening to kill her if she reported the incident to the police. Acting on the complaint, Bhara Kahu police have registered a case, but have yet to arrest any of the nominated suspects.

Separately, a taxi driver opened fire on passengers who were bickering on fare. Sabir Ali filed a report at the Golra police station stating that taxi driver Shabbir Hussain shot and injured his wife and cousin for arguing over extra fare.

Farhan Ali told Bhara Kahu police that Yasir Mehmood and Nasir opened fire on the gate of his house over a domestic dispute and threatened to kill him.

Sarfraz Ahmed told Koral police that Saad and an unidentified assailant were busy in aerial firing outside his home. “When my wife told them not to fire aerial shots outside her house, they shot at her with an intention to kill her, Ahmed said. However, the victim survived the injuries.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 30^th, 2020.