Demanding safety: Pashto drama producer complains of security threats

The producer alleged the police’s lack of response shows they might have links with the accused.

PESHAWAR:

A Pashto drama producer has asked the police to arrest a person she accused of kidnapping her husband and giving the couple death threats.

Addressing a press conference at the Peshawar Press Club on Tuesday, Hina said four kidnappers barged into her house and whisked her husband Attaullah away on April 25. Hina claimed she paid Rs150,000 in ransom for Attaullah’s release, who remained in captivity for four days. Despite this, we still receive threats and feel unsafe, she said.

“When my husband was kidnapped, I went to the Paharipura police station to lodge an FIR and named Shabeer as the accused who I knew, but the police did not give me any attention and instead said they will try to recover him.”

The producer said she had requested Chief Capital Police Officer Liaquat Ali Khan to take action against the culprits, but alleged that the police’s lack of response shows they might have links with the accused.

Attaullah said they were witnesses in a car-snatching case in which Shabeer was the prime suspect. They were receiving death threats ever since and were told to pay Rs0.5 million.

The couple requested senior officials of the police department to arrest the accused.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 1^st, 2013.