Domestic violence?: ‘Arrest murderers of girl from Chitral’
Civil society members say she was allegedly murdered by her husband.
PESHAWAR:
Human rights organisations have demanded the immediate arrest of the culprits behind the murder of a girl from Chitral in Lahore.
Addressing a news conference at Chitral Press Club on Monday, members of various rights organisations accused a man from Lahore of murdering Tahira Bibi.
Tahira Bibi married Nadeem four months ago. The activists accused Nadeem of hanging Tahira Bibi with the help of his first wife.
Awaaz district forum’s coordinator in Chitral, Muhammad Ismail told journalists the victim’s father Abdul Waheed married his daughter to the accused despite reluctance expressed by Tahira Bibi and her family members.
Ismail said Nadeem was a distant friend of Waheed and promised to keep his new wife in a separate house; not with Nadeem’s first wife. But the man from Lahore changed his mind after the nuptials.
Ismail added Nadeem also did not allow Bibi to talk to her family more than once a week.
Human Rights Programme Chitral’s chairman Niaz Niazi demanded Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and the Supreme Court of Pakistan take immediate action and bring the culprits to task.
Activists at the press club stated the alleged murder was not the first of its kind as four other girls from Chitral had been killed earlier but the culprits have not been arrested yet.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 2nd, 2014.
Human rights organisations have demanded the immediate arrest of the culprits behind the murder of a girl from Chitral in Lahore.
Addressing a news conference at Chitral Press Club on Monday, members of various rights organisations accused a man from Lahore of murdering Tahira Bibi.
Tahira Bibi married Nadeem four months ago. The activists accused Nadeem of hanging Tahira Bibi with the help of his first wife.
Awaaz district forum’s coordinator in Chitral, Muhammad Ismail told journalists the victim’s father Abdul Waheed married his daughter to the accused despite reluctance expressed by Tahira Bibi and her family members.
Ismail said Nadeem was a distant friend of Waheed and promised to keep his new wife in a separate house; not with Nadeem’s first wife. But the man from Lahore changed his mind after the nuptials.
Ismail added Nadeem also did not allow Bibi to talk to her family more than once a week.
Human Rights Programme Chitral’s chairman Niaz Niazi demanded Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and the Supreme Court of Pakistan take immediate action and bring the culprits to task.
Activists at the press club stated the alleged murder was not the first of its kind as four other girls from Chitral had been killed earlier but the culprits have not been arrested yet.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 2nd, 2014.