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kasifakhtar
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12/12/2011 12:49 PM
Friends, I read this news article and I'm posting it on this forum in hopes that someone in our local PTI leadership/ workers in KPK can extend help to the victims of such dastardly & heinous acts. Come to think of it, Masood Sharif Khattak contests elections from Karak, maybe him or someone else. http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=10919&Cat=13 Uzma Ayub case in SC: police behaving unprofessionally Anees Jillani Monday, December 12, 2011 ISLAMABAD: The gunmen who wanted to give a gift to the nation on the eve of the International Human Rights Day, shot dead Alamzeb Khattak, 24, as he came out of a court in Takht Nusrati, District Karak, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on December 9. Police have registered an FIR against ASI Hakeem Khan, his brother Ibrahim, Waheedullah and three unidentified persons. Alamzeb had just attended the proceedings of the alleged gang rape of his sister in the court whom he had steadfastly supported in her fight for justice in the face of threats and unrelenting pressure from the accused who include three policemen. The sister, Uzma Ayub, was abducted by the policemen in July last year and she finally managed to escape in September this year while she was pregnant. Some of the accused were arrested only now despite Uzma’s father and brother repeatedly filing cases and complaints to arrest the accused and get her recovered. Uzma clearly pointed out the culprits after her release; still the authorities failed to take any action. Police finally arrested the four accused in the rape case, including inspector Peer Mohsin Shah, sub-inspector Ameer Mohammad, assistant sub-inspector Hakeem Khan and one Qamar Ali, on December 3 after their pre-arrest bail was cancelled by an additional district and sessions judge. They were later remanded in the police custody for five days and were produced before the court of civil judge-cum-judicial magistrate on December 9 upon expiry of the police remand; they have now been sent to jail on judicial remand. The murder of Alamzeb is of course sad but it is a reflection of the state of affairs in our country and the impotence of the state institutions. I was apprehending this since Uzma’s daring escape and thus had asked friends to produce her before the Chief Justice of the Peshawar High Court; the latter instead of giving Uzma a hearing directed DIG Kohat to provide her security through a letter dated January 27, 2011. Security was provided but left lot to be desired as I myself experienced when I met Alamzeb and Uzma last month and as proven by the December 9 murder. On November 30, I had filed an application in the Supreme Court of Pakistan for giving Uzma a hearing and expressing the fear that her and her brother’s life was in danger; unfortunately, the fear proved to be right before the case could be taken up by the court. Uzma Ayub is only 17-years-old and now eight months pregnant after being gang-raped for 13 long months by several people, including three policemen and a soldier. What was her fault? The nightmare started when her brother Alamzeb got involved in a fight in their village while playing football. The other side fired a shot at him but missed and instead hit another boy. An FIR was lodged against Alamzeb by the very people who had done the shooting and the police raided his house three-weeks later. Alamzeb was arrested and the police was taking Uzma’s computer who was studying in the ninth grade at the time. She protested and the police left her computer alone and instead dragged her out and took her away. She was then confined in a window-less room for months and raped by many people. I need not mention that Uzma and her family are poor while the other party is influential and has political and financial connections with the right people. The rapists eventually sold her to a guy who was transporting her to another location when she managed to escape from the car when the two guys got down in a bazaar. The police in Karak are behaving unprofessionally. It first refused to register an FIR when she was abducted. Her family had to file a case in the sessions’ court for the registration of an FIR and even had to go to the Peshawar High Court to get her recovered; no arrests were ever made even after the registration of the FIR. The media gave her abduction substantial coverage after her escape but no arrests despite this could be made for months. Instead, the chief minister reacting to the media asked the provincial Home Secretary to investigate the matter. The latter conducted an inquiry but the report has so far not been made public. This approach was also strange and abnormal, as the police should simply have been asked to arrest the accused and proceed with the investigation. I had recently met Uzma and Alamzeb in Peshawar. I called them to PC thinking that it would be safe and we may be able to talk peacefully. The two of them came, along with a cousin. I was shocked to see that both she and her brother were so young; they were literally kids. She had a burqa and I could thus only see her eyes. One could make out from her brother’s crumbled shirt and their dirty shoes that they hailed from a humble background. She was initially ill-at ease in a five-star hotel coffee shop and I could see her eyes following the other women moving around freely without any purdah; the female manager in her trousers was a source of constant fascination for her eyes. They must have appeared as aliens to her. Uzma and her brother’s Urdu was, however, flawless which showed that their school had done a good job. They could also read Urdu quite comfortably. But Uzma appeared unhealthy and pale; she must be anemic and one could tell that she had not been exposed to sunlight for a long time. I was told that the Swiss Embassy had extended her an invitation to deliver her child in Switzerland and stay there for six months. She had refused the invitation. I asked her to re-consider her decision as she would be safe in Switzerland and it may help her in getting away from a dangerous and a depressing environment. Uzma said that her life is now destroyed and she desires nothing from life except justice. She wants her abductors and rapists to be arrested and brought to justice. Unfortunately her list of grievances has now vastly increased since the murder and one hopes that she would eventually get justice despite the provincial government remaining a silent spectator and the police reluctant to take any action against its own colleagues. The abductors including the police have constantly been exerting pressure on the family not to press the charges. Three cases were filed against Uzma’s brother. His lawyers are threatened and one was even abducted and told to withdraw; most of the lawyers are reluctant to take up their case. Armed persons roam around their house in the village and the whole family does not come out for fear of being killed. The father in any event is an old man and quite unwell. The question is who would be responsible if something happens to Uzma? What is the excuse of the authorities to delay the arrest of the accused in Uzma’s FIR, and for failing to provide adequate security to her family, particularly the brother? The police act swiftly when a poor person is nominated but is so reluctant to make any move in the present case.

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