Breach of trust: PAT submits two FIRs to discredit complaint

LAHORE:

Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) submitted two FIRs before a court on Friday to establish that Hajan Momina, a petitioner seeking a case against the PAT, was a blackmailer.

Momina had earlier sought the registration of a case against PAT’s chief among others for not paying her compensation to attend PAT’s Inqilab March.

The first FIR pertained to the alleged abduction of a girl. Momina, the complainant in the FIR, had claimed that she and another woman were travelling in a car with some people. She said she stopped at a shop to get mobile phone credit. When she returned, the car had disappeared, she said. She had said that the other woman had been taken to an unknown location and raped.

In the second FIR, Momina had accused a man of rape. She had said that he had been pressing her to have pre-marital relations with her but she had told him to marry her first. She had said that one day he had forced into her house and raped her.

The counsel for the PAT said that the FIRs showed that Momina had a “flawed character” and was a blackmailer.

After the hearing, the PAT spokesperson said that the woman was not connected to the PAT in anyway.

Momina had filed a petition in a district and sessions court seeking a case against PAT chief Tahirul Qadri, his son Hassan Mohyuddin, daughter Fatima and PAT president Raheeq Abbasi whom she accused of not paying her Rs3,500 for each day she had attended the PAT’s Inqilab March in Islamabad.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 31^st, 2015.