Qazi to mourn boy’s murder

Published October 9, 2003

LAHORE, Oct 8: Jamaat-i-Islami amir Qazi Husain Ahmed will stage a sit-in at Mandi Bahauddin on Saturday (Oct 11) as a mark of protest against the murder of a minor at the hands of some influential people of the area, who first sodomized him.

The body of Sajjad was chopped off and its pieces thrown into the fields, which his wailing mother collected one by one.

The only bread winner for divorcee Bushra was offered a job in the fields by the accused, which the ill-fated boy accepted immediately.

As the boy reached the “workplace”, four people allegedly subjected him to their carnal designs and then tortured him to death when he cried that he would bring the brutality to the notice of his family.

Thereafter, they cut the body into pieces and tossed them into the fields.

When the son did not return home for three days, the lonely mother got worried and started looking for him. Somebody told her that he had seen a piece of a human body in a farm. From this she got the clue to the torment her son had been through since he left the home on the promise of a livelihood.

The mother approached the police for help, but she got the same kind of treatment which the police are known to dispense to the have-nots. She approached the Jamaat-i-Islami for help. The whole story was narrated by Shabab-i-Milli office-bearers Shahid Pervaiz, Mohsin Bashir and Ahmad Salman at a news conference here on Wednesday.

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