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PESHAWAR/KARAK: Alamzeb Khattak, 25, a brother of Uzma Ayub, the teenage pregnant rape victim, was shot dead on Friday at 1:30pm, allegedly by three persons, an eyewitness said.

Ibrahim, son of Jehan Shah, a brother of ASI Hakeem Khan, along with his driver Pir Abdul Waheed, was named by Zafranullah, a brother of the deceased, who saw the killing on the Takht Nusrati court premises.

Police sources said the three police officials, including Inspector Peer Mohsin Shah, Sub-Inspector Ameer Muhammad and Assistant Sub-Inspector Hakeem Khan and another accused Qamar Ali, allegedly involved in the rape of Uzma Ayub, were produced before the court of civil judge Takht Nusrati Asif Iqbal and their plea of bails were cancelled by the court, and they were sent to prison.

The killing took place days after the victim, Uzma Ayub, had rejected an out-of-court deal offered by the accused police officers. On December 6, she had claimed that about 30-40 elders from ASI Hakeem Khan’s area Gudikhel, including MPA Shah Abdul Aziz, had come to her house on November 2 and told her brother Alamzeb that Hakeem Khan, Pir Mohsin Shah and Ameer Khan had confessed of their crime before them and were ready to accept the aggrieved family’s demands.

Uzma’s brother was coming out of the court after the hearing when the said armed assailants opened indiscriminate fire, killing him on the spot. He added that about 5-6 police officials were present at the gate, but nobody stopped the killers, who escaped safely.

The killing raised serious questions about the security provided to the young rape victim and her family, specially after three police officials were arrested for the crime. The daylight murder also confirmed fears raised by numerous human rights organisations about Uzma’s safety.

Her brother Alamzeb told The News: “I and my mother Bilqees Begum had left for the court in the morning and when we reached there, we found about 50 persons present on the premises of the court as supporters of Hakeem Khan from Gudikkhel area and protesting against the hearing afterwards.”

Zafranullah said that after coming out of the court, Alamzeb asked him to take their mother home and that he would tell him about the hearing later. “When Alamzeb was about to ride his motorbike, a car hit him and Alamzeb tried to run away, but Pir Abdul Waheed, the driver, held him and Ibrahim, the brother of Hakeem Khan, shot him on his head and chest. Alamzeb was sprayed with five bullets.”

Uzma’s family sources said the car that hit Alamzeb was slate coloured with No899, and DPO Sajid Mohmand had provided it to ASI Hakeem Khan, who is now in jail.

When contacted, Uzma Ayub said that while leaving for the court in the morning, her brother had talked to him for the last time, saying that he was going to collect all the required documents and soon they would shift to Peshawar and would also transfer their case to the Peshawar High Court.

She said that her family had dropped her at her elder sister’s house and she had packed her luggage for shifting to Peshawar. She further said that three days back, her family had received threatening messages from Hakeem Khan, saying: “I am anyway in jail, but soon Bilqees Begum (Uzma’s mother) will receive a gift from me.”

Uzma Ayub said that she had learnt from a relative that while Alamzeb was in hospital, some of Hakeem’s accomplices had asked about her as they also wanted to kill her.

She said despite the threats, she had not been provided with any kind of security from the police department or from the provincial government.

When The News reporter Nasir Iqbal Khattak contacted the district police officer (DPO) Sajid Ahmad Khan Mohmand for comments, he said that he was in a meeting at Kohat. When he was informed about the incident, he claimed that the Alamzeb family had many enemies; therefore, it would be premature to say who was involved in thekilling. The DPO said the police were investigating the case from different angles to ascertain the truth and reach the real culprits.

When he was told that a few weeks ago, the slain Alamzeb had expressed fears that Taliban had given threats to his family to go for abortion or face the consequences, the DPO said that they had thoroughly investigated the threats, but there was no reality in Alamzeb’s claim. He added that they would see the statements of the relatives of Alamzeb and after the nomination of the accused in the FIR, they would act accordingly.

Meanwhile, Ansar Burney, the head of the Ansar Burney Trust, condemned the killing of Alamzeb and said that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government had totally failed to protect the lives of a victim already suffering the consequences of a terrible crime. He said that he had warned the government earlier to provide security to the victim family, but it did not bother to do so.

Ansar Burney said that the incident was an outcome of negligence on the part of the government as well as the police department. He said as he had announced to take responsibility of Uzma and his child, so the time has now come to take the step. He further said that the killing of the innocent young brother, fighting for justice for his sister, depicts the ugly side of the police department.

The Asian Human Rights Commission and members of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa civil society organisations, including Blue Veins, Women Action Forum, Shirkatgah, Aurat Foundation, Sparc, CRSD and SRD, have strongly condemned the brutal killing in front of a court and in the presence of police in large numbers.

These organisations announced to hold a countrywide protest, admitting that it was their defeat that they could not understand the gravity of the situation and were taking things lightly, but now it was the time to fight against the system. The human rights activists urged the government to arrest the killers of Alamzeb as soon as possible.

Rape victim
 
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Looks like they have to settle it the old fashioned way.
 
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The Story of Uzma Ayub.

Wednesday, October 05, 2011

PESHAWAR: A teenage girl, kidnapped one year ago, held captive and repeatedly raped by several persons, including policemen, has miraculously escaped from her captors while being six months pregnant and has now vowed to seek justice, desperately, come what may.

Uzma, the teenager who will soon be a single mother, has gathered the strength and determination to take the known culprits to justice, says she would go to any length, like Mukhtaran Mai who became an icon and inspiration for all violated women in Pakistan.

Parents of the victim, Uzma, 16, daughter of Mohammad Ayub, a resident of Marwataan Banda, Tehsil Takht-e-Nasrati of the Karak district, who dodged her kidnappers and rapists on Sept 19 while being shifted in a car to DI Khan from Bannu, had lodged an FIR soon after she went missing in October last year.

She narrated the escape to The News saying two kidnappers who were taking her in a car stopped over in a crowded place and she jumped out and escaped. Then she called her brother from a public phone and managed to dodge the two.

When she was kidnapped, local police had failed to recover her. Later, her parents moved the Peshawar High Court (PHC) that summoned the police officials and ordered them to recover the girl at the earliest. Sources said the affected girl under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code recorded her statement in the case FIR No: 363 registered on October 9, 2010 under Section 496 of the Pakistan Penal Code at the Takht-e-Nasrati Police Station.

She had stated in her report: “Police raided our home to arrest my brother over a petty dispute with our neighbour and picked me up and handed me over to Gul Marjan, Sardar Ali Khan, Nazar Khan, Qamar Ali alias Guley. These people kept me at their house, where Mst Guleena and Shakeel came and spent some time with me. Then came Dr Iqbal in the room. He administered me an injection and I fell unconscious. When I regained my senses, I noticed that I had been shifted to another location. I did not know anybody there. After some time, Qamar Ali alias Guley and Karim visited me.”

In the statement she alleged: “In that house Naseebullah, a brother of Guley, visited me and forced me to marry him. Same night Naseebullah’s son visited me and raped me. Qamar Ali Khan, Karim and Alam also raped me. Two police officials, one named Hakim, used to frequently visit me to satisfy their lust. I don’t know the name of the other cop but can recognise him if he is produced before me.”

The wronged girl said: “All the people mentioned are involved in my abduction and molestation. I charged these persons with ruining my life and making me pregnant. In the house when I was drugged and raped second time, the people over there told me that I had been sold to them and they were taking me to Dera Ismail Khan and when they stopped at Bannu, I escaped from their captivity and now am here before you.”

Bilqees Begum, mother of Uzma, told The News, “Police is supposed to provide protection to the people but if they themselves become beasts, who will trust them?”

The News learnt that a lady doctor Zakia conducted the medical examination of the girl and declared that she was six months pregnant. It was also learnt that none of the lawyers in the area was ready to plead her case. Some of media men allegedly demanded a huge amount from the affected family members when they requested them to highlight the case as the accused, including cops, were influential.

When contacted by The News, Uzma said though she knew that girls like her had never got justice in Pakistan, yet she would not give up, adding she would demand justice from the Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, President Asif Ali Zardari, Premier Yusuf Raza Gilani and the human rights organisations and would ask one question from all of them: What would they do had their daughter been in the place where I am standing today? I only expect that treatment from them as their daughters would have got.”

On April 5, 2011, a two-member bench comprising Justice Dost Muhammad Khan and Justice Yahya Afridi had directed the district police officer to trace the kidnapped girl when the girl’s mother had alleged that her daughter, then a student of 9th grade, had been kidnapped by police officials including SHO Pir Mohsin Shah, Sub-Inspector Hakeem Khan and Amir Muhammad during an illegal raid on her house. She had sent an application to Chief Justice of the PHC Ejaz Afzal Khan who had later converted it into a writ petition.

The Karak DPO, Sajid Khan Mohmand, had appeared before the court and contended that on the complaint of the female, the police had registered an FIR at the Takht-e-Nasrati Police Station in Karak. Police had raided several places but could not recover the girl. He had added that four persons earlier charged by the complainant had been granted bail by a local court.

A brother of the alleged kidnapped girl, Alamzeb Khan, had told the court that the family had learnt that his sister had been taken to Quetta by an army man, Naseebullah Khan. He stated that although the family had named him but the local police did not arrest him. He had stated that the local police had also implicated him in different cases. The DPO had stated that the complainant had not charged the said person in the initial statement.

The PHC chief justice on April 06, this year had directed the Karak DPO to contact the station commander of the Pakistan Army in Quetta for searching the teenaged girl who according to her family members was illegally being held by a serving soldier after her alleged abduction by the local policemen.

Alamzeb Khan, brother of the kidnapped girl, informed the court that his family had received information from reliable sources that his sister was in illegal detention of the main accused Nasibullah, who was an army man and currently serving in Quetta.

The bench had directed the Karak DPO to record supplementary statement of the girl’s brother against Nasibullah in the case. The bench also directed him to send a senior police officer to Quetta to discuss the girl’s abduction with the station commander, seek her recovery and pursue abduction charges against the soldier. He later fixed April 21 for the next hearing into the case.

Bilqees had told the court that she was at home when SHO Pir Mohsin Shah, Sub-Inspector Hakeem Khan and additional SHO Amir Muhammad raided her residence unaccompanied by any lady constable. She alleged that the cops also took away some cash and gold ornaments from her house.

On April 22, the PHC directed the police officials in Karak to recover the kidnapped girl by May 11 or face suspension from service

Pregnant rape victim dodges kidnappers and escapes
 
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OP good job...
at least i didnt know of this incident....
some parts of pakistan are still gripped in medeival times and these incidents are just shameful.
brave girl i say...hope she gets justice.
 
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RIP to the innocent girl.

Hope justice is served but knowing it's Pakistan and to make matters worse its KPK I highly doubt it. Hope this region enters the 20th century soon.
 
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Simple is that, the accused persons have influential contacts with in provincial government, that's what delaying the justice and then people ask what made tehrik e taliban rise so quickly in KPK
 
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NANKANA: A poor barber, who was the eyewitness of his wife's rape is reported to have suffered severe burns after the influential rapist poured acid in his eyes in Nankana Sahib, Geo News reported.

The fifty-year-old barber is being treated for acid burns in the District Headquarter Hospital.

Details have it that the Barber Ibrahim caught Bilawal Shah village Chaudhry’s son teasing his (Ibrahim's) wife and beat. Upon which, Chaudhry's son fled the scene vowing revenge.

After sometime the Chaudrys kidnapped Ibrahim and beat him. Chaudhrys also poured acid in his eyes.

Barely able to talk, beaten and acid-burnt, Ibrahim was taken to local DHQ where he was not even able to tell what he had been through.

No one is ready to testify against the culprits.

Police say it was a very cruel thing to do with anyone and they are digging into the matter.


Chaudhry burns barber
No justice for the poor :cry::cry:
 
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This is heart wrecking news,I expect the views of more pak members on this matter.

first part of your post was enough I think

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I hope justice prevail
 
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