HYDERABAD, Aug 3: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has sought a detailed report from Hyderabad DCO on Aisha Malik who made headlines after she offered her two children for sale a couple of weeks ago in the city’s main bazaar.

“I have been asked to send a report on the case of Aisha Malik and I’ll prepare it in a couple of days after meeting Aisha Malik, who is coming to Hyderabad,” DCO Ali Ahmed Lund told Dawn on phone on Sunday.

He said that the prime minister had sought the report and also sent some compensation money to be delivered to the woman.

The money would be handed over to her when she came to Hyderabad, he added.

Aisha Malik is currently residing with her husband and children in a place provided to her by Ansar Burney

Trust International’s Syed Sarim Burney who came to her rescue.

Her husband Zahid Hussain whose incarceration, she claimed, had forced her to take the extreme decision of selling her children, has been granted bail.

She had married Zahid Malik after getting divorce from her first husband who is three times older than her. She said her brothers had forced her into marriage.

Her husband, she alleged, was implicated in false cases about one and a half years ago and was imprisoned in Sukkur.

Sarim Bruney said that the women crisis centre Hyderabad’s in-charge Fauzia Ashraf had contacted him for details of her case.

She said she would visit Aisha Malik in Karachi as well, he said.

Until informed by media personnel during her talks with journalists, Sindh Women Development Minister Tauqeer Fatima Bhutto and women crisis centre in-charge were not aware of Aisha Malik’s case.

Mr Malik was offered job by Sindh industries and culture ministers but he had no cnic to apply for any job.

“I have submitted papers for a computer national identity card (CNIC) of Zahid Malik in Karachi so that he can get a job,” said Mr Burney.