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Men who chopped off sister’s legs arrested

Staff Report

MULTAN: Bahawalpur Police on Sunday arrested the two brothers who have allegedly amputated their sister’s legs for marrying the person of her choice, while raids are underway to arrest their four accomplices.

Police caught Bashir Ahmad, 36, and Bilal Ahmad, 40, for amputating the legs of their sister, Nasim, 24. “Nasim loved Muhammad Saeed, a tractor driver, and married him with the consent of her mother, Shamoon, but her father, brothers and uncles did not accept the marriage and allegedly attacked the couple several times. They forced her to get divorce from Saeed but she declined to do so. The men allegedly amputated her legs with a chopper,” Faqir Muhammad, an investigation officer, said on Sunday.

Earlier, the brothers had filed a false kidnapping case against Nasim’s husband, claiming that Saeed had abducted their sister. However, she dismissed her brother’s claims before Muhammad Salim, additional superintendent of police, during investigation and said that she had married him lawfully. Police dropped the kidnapping charges against Saeed. Nasim is pregnant and doctors are trying to save her life in the Bahawal Victoria Hospital.

Alcoholics slaughter a cleric: Two drunk-people slaughtered a cleric with a dagger in Katchi Shakrani village near Uch Sharif. They amputated the cleric’s hand before killing because he had stopped them from drinking alcohol. “Two alcoholics, Mushtaq Ahmad and Muhammad Akram, who were also involved in drug trafficking attacked Hafiz Ghulam Sarwar when he was reciting Quran in the mosque on Saturday. We have registered a case against them,” said Arif Nawaz, the district police officer. He said Hafiz Sarwar was an honest and polite and had five children.

Up to 35 women burnt to death this year: At least 267 women were kidnapped, 268 were subjected to rape and the same number of women were murdered in Punjab during the year, said Munazza Hashmi, the Citizen Commission for Human Rights (CCHR) Multan Chapter chief, on Sunday.

“We set up the organisation on November 25, 2004 and collected data, which reveals that 35 women were burnt to death by their relatives, 268 were raped, 268 were murdered, 43 were physically tortured at home and 96 outside the house,” she said. She said CCHR is providing free legal aid and counselling to women, adding that it had so far provided free legal aid to 33 women and 46 were counselled and printed material regarding basic human rights was distributed in universities, colleges, Darul Aman, Darul Falah, prisons and schools. She said more than 50 percent of the crimes against women are not reported to police or the media.

Three killed in landslide: A woman and her two minor children died due to landslide near Charota village in Suleman mountain range on Sunday. “Three people of a family were buried alive due to landslide in Suleman Mountain range on Sunday when they were returning home in a camel cart,” said Dr Muhammad Qaiserani, an area nazim. He said landslides have continued since the October 8 earthquake.

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