Chakwal: Girl shot for listening to music

The Newspaper's Correspondent Published November 25, 2014

CHAKWAL: A sixteen-year-old girl was gunned down in Matan Kallaan village located in tehsil Kallar Kahar of Chakwal district, police sources said on Monday.

Munsib Khan told Kallar Kahar Police that he left his home early in the morning for work.

His younger brother, Muhammad Gulistan, alias Gullu, came to his house at 10am.

Gullu found his niece, Rihana Bibi, listening to music on a tape-recorder with the volume turned up. He asked the girl to switch off the tape-recorder but she refused. This led to a fight between the uncle and niece.

Enraged by the girl’s defiance Gullu shot his niece.

“Two bullets were fired at the girl. One hit her in the head while the other on her face. She died on the spot,” a police official at Kallar Kahar Police Station told Dawn. The accused fled from the village after committing the murder.

Investigation Officer Ali Akbar said the killer will be arrested soon. “We have registered a case against him and are making efforts to trace him,” he added.

Published in Dawn, November 25th , 2014

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Sophocles

Nov 25, 2014 01:59pm

"Killer will be arrested soon" ..... and "spared" by the relatives even sooner.

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Irfan

Nov 25, 2014 02:06pm

What a shameful act. This Gulluism will lead us to nowhere. These depraved should be hanged in public. BUT wait. We still need a true and honest judicial system free from any political interference. which I cannot see in the presence of another cheep justice Mr. Nasir-ul-Mulk.

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Irfan UK

Nov 25, 2014 02:32pm

I can't believe this. I think the killer should be given the death penalty in his own town so people can see it.

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maryam

Nov 25, 2014 02:32pm

Really! Do such things really happen!? I am dumbstruck..what an intolerant nation we are! Disgusting

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shami

Nov 25, 2014 02:33pm

Another "Gullu" behind the scence. When will we get rid of these Gullu Butts?

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sheraz

Nov 25, 2014 02:44pm

Gullucracy once again !!! This will happen again and again when you don't bring culprits to justice..

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karach Wally

Nov 25, 2014 02:44pm

I am reminded of guy call Zia ul Haq, each time I read such news.

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Fakhir

Nov 25, 2014 02:54pm

RIP

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Ammy

Nov 25, 2014 02:55pm

youngsters do like entertainment like music, but an uncle reacting with Gun is extreme !! having made her understood calmly and politely in a gentle tone would have helped. I guess personal egos resulted this incidence going out of hand. Tolerance is disappearing from society.

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Sohail

Nov 25, 2014 02:55pm

I seriously doubt if it was music only. This is clearly like an attempt for rape or something of the sort and due to girl's resistance she was shot. There should be thorough investigation.

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Nov 25, 2014 03:07pm

All culprits are taking shelter of religion to commit crime.

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Gaurav Arya

Nov 25, 2014 03:07pm

Moral of the story - High Volume Kills.

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Pervez Janjua

Nov 25, 2014 03:35pm

Barbaric act of "Uncle" must not go unpunished. What a terrible shame he has brought to the family and deprived his young niece of her life.

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indian

Nov 25, 2014 04:28pm

Welcome to pakistan

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citizen

Nov 25, 2014 04:32pm

Life became so cheap and valueless in the country..

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Abdullah

Nov 25, 2014 04:52pm

Are we sure the fight was caused by the music only?

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Asad

Nov 25, 2014 04:55pm

Wow...dumbfounded!!

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Sudhanshu Swami

Nov 25, 2014 05:03pm

Surprised to know that one can kill his own relative just because of volume, even more surprising is that Tape recorders are still used. He wasted two bullets, I guess that in the price of two bullets he could buy and gift personal tiny mp3 player with earphones. Else I dont know guns and bullets are quite cheaper in Pakistan.

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Sudhanshu Swami

Nov 25, 2014 05:08pm

@Gaurav Arya No, Moral of story is that some people dont have morale at all.

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Combaticus

Nov 25, 2014 05:18pm

Was it only loud music or more sinister motive behind the murder, like rape. Police should investigate this thoroughly.

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aluminiumfish

Nov 25, 2014 06:02pm

@Combaticus I agree entirely probably a case of sexual harassment and covered up with a lame story about music.

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Z khan

Nov 25, 2014 07:03pm

@Combaticus now that I think of your view makes the most sense. Police should investigate this more closely.

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Junaid

Nov 25, 2014 07:50pm

@karach Wally. totally agreed. This is the seed of the Zia ul Haq that he planted and now we are seeing this today. He has ruined the entire generation of Pakistan.

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KannadaBoy

Nov 25, 2014 07:52pm

Honestly, this could happen anywhere when people have access to Guns..looks like Teenage boy was short tempered and did this in haste moment....headline appears as if some radical shot girl for listening music...pls don't paint everything with one angle...

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aleem

Nov 25, 2014 08:14pm

So the issue is not that of someone dying for listening to "music", rather an insecure, uneducated bloke not able to take arguments from a 16 year old girl. Possibility of refusing to become a molestation target could also be reason for this killing.

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Pakistani

Nov 25, 2014 08:16pm

@indian What about your own country here only handful of such people lives but in India every 8 out of 10 are doing violence against women in one way or another. see the statistics by yourself

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