Young lady doctor ‘shot at by father’

Victim was shot twice, one bullet hitting her leg and another her head

MIANWALI:

A man was booked on charges of armed attack on his own daughter.

The victim, Dr Sidra Niazi, who worked at the Maternal and Child Centre in Muslim Bazaar, was allegedly shot at by her father. The FIR was filed on the complaint of Dr Niazi’s brother.

She is in a critical condition. The first bullet hit her in the foot while the second bullet went through her head. She was referred from the DHQ Hospital Mianwali to the DHQ Hospital Rawalpindi where she is on a ventilator.

Sources said that Dr Sidra Niazi’s only fault was that she had made a request to her father to allow her to marry an educated man, perhaps a doctor, with whom she could have some mental compatibility.

Her father, however, believed it to be his right to choose the match for her daughter.

Sidra, nevertheless, stood her ground and tried to convince her father but in vain.

On the other hand, her father couldn’t tolerate his daughter’s disobedience.

Dr Sidra Niazi often shared her dilemma with her friends, telling them she couldn’t marry her cousin.

Her friends even advised her to leave her home and go somewhere beyond the reach of her father.

Dr Sidra Niazi didn’t want to embarrass her father to live with the stigma of being one whose daughter had run away. Besides, she didn’t want to be remembered by people of being someone whose character was questionable.

Meanwhile, the tussle between the father and the daughter lingered on, and on the fateful day Sidra got shot twice allegedly by her father after they had had a heated argument.

The father of Dr Sidra allegedly first shot her in the leg and then in the head and told her brother to take her away.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 27^th, 2023.