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.
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it is a very sad and disturbing story one of their type as being a chitrali , i feel sorry about the family of tahira bibi who are suffering form it, but the way our human rights body and chitrali people going to handle this situation through a so called pakistani rules and regulation , i dont thinks it gonna work as we expect form it, this is pakistani system, we are half trible people we have to handle our own way, there should be an example for such type of people,especeilay for punjabi the most tustwrothless and sign of fruad all over the world, unfurtunatly we are under pakistan government which is controlled be punjabi now , i recant a straight shout to this man , by using any mean of strategies , and there should be a rules for no entry for any punjabi to chitral, they deserve such type of response from a civilized society,as concend to the behaviour do the othere society with punjabi in any western country ,people called it recism but i am in some point supporting it , like some of the society in this world are not able to get enough civilized mannar yet, how can they should be accepte by civilized one, burhan
The concerned agencies in Punjab Government must find and bring the culprits of this heinous crime to justice. Our political leaders are requested to join hands with the human rights organizations and prevail upon the concerned authorities to provide justice to the affected family. All of us should draw a lesson from these ugly incidents. I ask my fellow Chitralis to properly sort out things before marrying their daughters to outsiders.