KARACHI: Priests urge governor to restrain ‘miscreants’
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, April 14: A three-member delegation of the priests associated with the Diocese of Karachi called on Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad at the Governor’s House on Thursday and urged him to take action against the miscreants who, according to them, were trying to create problems for the community by spreading disinformation. The maintained that such elements were also trying to create a law and order problems in the city.
The priests, Raj Kumar, Emmanuel Victor and Nazeer Masih, handed over to the governor a memorandum, signed by 31 priests in the city, in this regard.
The governor assured the delegation that he would look into the matter.
Earlier, members of Christian community, led by all the 31 priests, staged a demonstration at the Karachi Press Club to highlight the issues being faced by the minority community.
The minority leaders distributed copies of the memorandum among media people. It said that some miscreants who were trying to create a law and order situation in the city to fulfil their nefarious designs.
Meanwhile, Dr Tasneem Kauser, at a press conference at the press club on Thursday, alleged that her teenaged daughter, Ester David, had been kidnapped by Ghazla Shafique, Safina Javed and others.
She said that her daughter lived in the Brenton Carey Hostel. She claimed that after Ghazala Shafique became the administrator of the hostel, the hostel administration resorted to showing indecent films to girls students, who were also forced to learn dancing and attend private parties.
Dr Kauser told newsmen that when Ester objected to such practices, she was beaten up and threatened with dire consequences by Ghazala. Ester was eventually sent back home, the mother said.
Next morning, on November 15, she found her daughter missing, Dr Kauser said, adding that an FIR had been lodged at the Mahmoodabad Police Station against unknown persons. After 15 days, she came to know that Ester had been kidnapped by Ghazala Shafique, Ejaz Enayat and Safina Javed who wanted Ester to give a statement against her (Dr Kauser). Ester did not bow to them and was taken to an NGO, Aurat Foundation, claiming that the girl was an orphan.
Ester David giving her account of kidnapping, she recalled that on that day, she got up early in the morning when someone knocked at the door. Presuming that it may be the milkman, she opened the door but a stranger threw something on her face and she fell unconscious, according to Ester. She woke up in the afternoon and found herself at a strange place where Ghazala Shafique, Safina Javed and another person were present. They forced her to write a statement against her mother but she refused, the teenaged girl claimed, saying that they had kept her under the influence of drugs and obtained her signatures on different papers.
