Distraught mother threatens self-immolation

A woman, accusing Pakistan Peoples Party's MPA Sardar Ghulam Abid Khan Sundrani for allegedly kidnapping her daughter, sister in law and a minor girl, has warned of setting herself on fire outside the court if all the three are not recovered.

Hameedan Dahar, who appeared before a court in Dadu district on Saturday, also refuted to have signed a paper to withdraw allegations against Kashmore-Kandhkot district based MPA.

She claimed while talking to the media that her husband Manzoor Chandio deceived her into signing a document which was later shown as some agreement between the two sides fighting their cases before the court. She alleged that she was receiving threats to her life to pressurize her to withdraw from the case.

According to Dahar, her daughter Seema alias Fozia, sister in law 45 years old Nasreen and eight years old Fatima Dahar have allegedly been kidnapped by Sundrani and others. During the last hearing, the MPA's counsel advocate Nazakat Qureshi had apprised the court that Dahar's family had approached the MPA with a request to help them recover the kidnapped women and child. However, they later accused Sundrani for demanding ransom. An agreement produced before the court at that hearing stated that the allegation by Dahar against Sundrani was caused by a confusion.