QUETTA, May 30: The mystery of a missing eight-year-old-girl, Shagufta Riaz Paracha, was resolved when her parents recognised a badly decomposed body as being their daughter on Tuesday. The girl had been missing since March 29 when she went out of her house on the Fatima Jinnah Road around 7 pm to run an errand. The police found her corpse in bushes near the Railway Inspector Colony after they received a call from a man. They took the body to the Civil Hospital for an autopsy.
While reading a local newspaper, her parents came to know that the corpse of a girl had been found. So they contacted police who directed them to the hospital where they recognized the corpse as being their daughter.
A large number of people gathered outside Shagufta’s house when her body was brought there. They held a protest demonstration and chanted slogans against the police and the provincial government. They put barricades on the road as a result of which traffic was suspended for some time. However, police soon normalised the situation.
PRESS CONFERENCE: Later, the girl’s father, Riaz Paracha, addressed a press conference along with a sitting MPA of the PPP, Shafiq Ahmed Khan, at his residence giving a week’s time to the police for arresting the accused involved in killing his daughter.
“We will launch a protest movement after a week if her killers are not arrested,” he said, alleging that the police took no interest in recovering his daughter despite a suo-moto notice by the chief justice of the Balochistan High Court.
He said that the police kept asking him everyday whether he had received any call for ransom.
He said that he and his family had no enmity with any person.
Mr Shafiq said that the issue of kidnapping of Shagufta and other children would be taken up in the on-going session of the Balochistan Assembly, adding that he would contact other parties on the issue.
Police sources said that tissue samples from the body would be sent to Islamabad for a DNA test.
QUETTA, May 30: The mystery of a missing eight-year-old-girl, Shagufta Riaz Paracha, was resolved when her parents recognised a badly decomposed body as being their daughter on Tuesday. The girl had been missing since March 29 when she went out of her house on the Fatima Jinnah Road around 7 pm to run an errand. The police found her corpse in bushes near the Railway Inspector Colony after they received a call from a man. They took the body to the Civil Hospital for an autopsy.
