‘Want best care for gang-rape victim’

The Sindh governor has issued a cheque of Rs500,000 for the Kashmore gang-rape child survivor's treatment, said Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf parliamentary leader in the Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Sheikh on Wednesday.

In a statement, he said the party's leadership was in contact with the girl and her mother and wanted to provide her the best care. The PTI lawmaker said they wanted to shift the five-year-old to Aga Khan University Hospital but her treatment was being carried out at the National Institute of Child Health, a public hospital.

With regards to the FIR against Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Captain (retd) Safdar, Sheikh said the police report stated the complainant was not present at the site of the alleged incident. "But our statement was not recorded," he claimed, adding that the court approved the police report.

Sheikh maintained that the application of complainant Waqas Ahmed, who is also his nephew and an absconder in other cases, was before the court too and the judge said the case could be heard if evidence is available.

According to him, the Sindh chief minister and provincial minister Saeed Ghani had already established that Waqas was present elsewhere at the time but Waqas wanted to record his statement. "It is not a personal issue, it is about the sanctity of the Quaid's Mazaar where sloganeering cannot be tolerated," claimed Shaikh, adding that they would go to the high court and even the Supreme Court if needed.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 19^th, 2020.