August 24, 2008	Sunday	Sha'aban 21, 1429

LARKANA, Aug 23: Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari, daughter of Benazir Bhutto, laid floral wreaths on the graves of her mother, grandfather and uncles in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh Bhutto amid tight security being overseen by Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfikar Mirza himself.

She stood for some time beside her mother’s grave in silence before leaving for her family’s Naudero house.

Personnel of police rangers closed all the gates of the mausoleum after Bakhtawar’s vehicle entered the shrine and did not let anyone to go inside as long as Bakhtawar stayed there.

After a brief stay at Naudero she again went to mazar and sat for sometime beside the grave of her mother after media persons had left the mausoleum.

She offered fateha and placed floral wreaths on all the graves and then flew back to Karachi.

WIFE TORTURED: Tasleem Channa reached Women’s Crisis Cell on Saturday and alleged that her husband had been torturing her and her children.

Dr Sakina Gaad, caretaker of the cell, said that Abdul Ghaffar Channa, Tasleem’s husband, was a drug addict who beat up his wife and children so often. Recently he fractured the arm of his 12-year-old daughter when she stopped him from beating her mother, she said.

Dr Gaad talked to ASP Nasir Qureshi and referred the case to him, who had called both parties to come to his office on Monday. The ASP said without hearing the parties that he would not be able to decide the issue.